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Industrial carpet

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I tried to buy a carpet set off flea bay. I got beat at the end of the auction. I contacted the seller trying to buy a set at a fixed price. (He's a trader). His reply was less than useful. Anyway, I have decided to make my own. However I need to buy some heavy duty industrial carpet. I only want to carpet the cab area. Anybody know where I can buy a small amount of industrial grade carpet. Would prefer rubber backed in black but dark grey would suffice. Thanks folks

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your local cheap carpet shop will have off cuts of all sorts of carpet remnants including hd types, when I lived in Warrington the shop in Birchwood Mall was great but I think they left when the rents got hiked by the owners who wanted to go upmarket; in a relatively poor area of Warrington in a shopping centre with an ASDA ffs
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Just google for a local carpet supplier, we have a few that do offices etc round here and often throw out the sizes that could use in the van, if they are open when I finish work I will see if they got anything. Failing that will ask my boy if they have any offcuts from one the vans they are doing.
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Thanks you two. I'm not being lazy, I've rung around carpet shops and nobody has anything. Annoyingly my son used to have a carpet shop!

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I've done a couple of carpet/heavy mat sets in the past and will probably look into doing the same again for the new van.

You can often get a roll of cheapish car/van grade carpet for next to nowt, paying a little more gets a nicer feel. Trouble is it still feels thin and flimsy.
The trick is to get some heavy duty thick rubberised underlay, not the horrible stuff that disintegrates. You then make your mat out of this material, rubber side down. Once you have a good fitting mat (leave it a few mm's small) you want to stick your carpet to this using a quality contact adhesive. Its then just a case of trimming the carpet down leaving enough to fold over the edges to give a neater finish. The folds can be clamped between two bits of wood while you wait for adhesive to go off.
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Sounds like you want to do the job Ash. :wink:

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meggles wrote:Sounds like you want to do the job Ash. :wink:

........ Now how did the gearbox out story go again.

But seriously its quite easy to do. While ideally you want on piece of underlay it could be done in three as once carpet is stuck it will sit ok. That way you just want to put a wanted out on freecycle for offcuts of underlay. - be picky though as you want decent stuff.

I'll have to have a look but I may have some spare black carpet as we are probably going to go with grey when we get to that stage.
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You would be better off if the original vw moulded rubber floor mat was retained as an underlay, then you have a level surface to carpet. I have just got some dark ish grey rubber backed car carpet from coverdale, may have a few meters i could sell.
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Think I'm sorted now but thanks anyway folkso
btw, I am using original rubber mat as underlay.

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YES!!! Sorted. I just won some carpet on fleabay. Tailored to fit a T25! Got it cheaper than the other stuff I bid on too. Result! Looks like I'll make Redcar after all. :lol:

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meggles wrote:YES!!! Sorted. I just won some carpet on fleabay. Tailored to fit a T25! Got it cheaper than the other stuff I bid on too. Result! Looks like I'll make Redcar after all. :lol:


If its the set I think its a good job I forgot to bid on it :wink:

Let me know if its any good as the guy has listed another set to end next week.
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Will do Ash. I brought van to yours this morning. You were out
I had the thermostat housing I said you could have.

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meggles wrote:Will do Ash. I brought van to yours this morning. You were out
I had the thermostat housing I said you could have.

Ah.... I was out at car boot early on then up to upullit for a couple of window rubbers from a 206. Traffic was a nightmare due to road resurfacing so took ages getting back.
Off this week so hopefully heading away with van on its first proper outing.
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meggles wrote:YES!!! Sorted. I just won some carpet on fleabay. Tailored to fit a T25! Got it cheaper than the other stuff I bid on too. Result! Looks like I'll make Redcar after all. :lol:


Hi Meggles. I need some carpet as well. Was it a one of or does the seller have more?
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Sir Brixalot wrote:
meggles wrote:YES!!! Sorted. I just won some carpet on fleabay. Tailored to fit a T25! Got it cheaper than the other stuff I bid on too. Result! Looks like I'll make Redcar after all. :lol:


Hi Meggles. I need some carpet as well. Was it a one of or does the seller have more?

I had to bid on an auction. . If you hold fire it should arrive tomorrow or Wednesday and I'll tell you how good or bad it is.
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