rug pad residue..

[Mikey P]

you guys see this much?

it also damages wood floors, glazed tiles and any finished/waxed flooring.


I give the Nomuv speech about twice a week these days..

caused by this sort of crap.

My blog about the issue..

 

[The Great Oz]

Agree with that being crap pad but I'll send a PM about your blog post..

 

[Mikey P]

thanks Brian



boy does my SGS3 take great pics or what?

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[Ron Lippold]

I see a lot of that and on some floors you just can't get rid of it, off gassing I'm guessing.

 

[Mikey P]

I was able to get the residue off the lower picture.
Top pic Is not so much a residue.. like Ron said appears to be off gasing discoloration

 

[rhyde]

Here's a pic of a durahold pad we replaced this year, had to use a putty knife to get the stuff off the floor. Owner claims they rolled the rug and pad out and never did a thing to the floor ?


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[The Great Oz]

Usually sticky pad residue reacts best to alcohol, which won't damage anything but a wax finish.

Randy, they may have done nothing to the floor, but I'll bet they poured a lot of stuff into the rug.

PS: The SGS3 does take great pictures.

PPS: I just noticed a red flag at the top of the page that says I have 282 notifications. Am I a bad MBer or is that a glitch? I'm afraid to look.

 

[rhyde]

Bryan, they claimed to have never cleaned or spot cleaned the rug and there was no water marks/ stains on the rug or pad the large round spots where where a TV stand was but most of the heavy stuff resulted in the same issue the pad stuck to the floor even under the sofa.

 

[Harry Myers]

From what I know if there were no liquid spills. Most likely they had there floors redone, they probably did not allow proper curing time.

 

[The Great Oz]

I'm very familiar with sticky goo that rubber pads can turn into, which is why we stopped selling rubber twenty years ago. It's made a strong comeback because it's easier to sell as a "natural" product than take the time to educate the consumer about the superior expanded vinyl products.

Typically though, a felted pad will absorb a little goo from a rubber coating since the coating is so thin. When the rubber breaks down it will then only leave a dusty residue.

I suppose it's possible that furniture of great weight could compress the felt so much that it couldn't absorb the natural rubber goo, but I still think there's more to the story.