Be Careful of Rebond Carpet Padding
Yes, recycling and saving the environment is a good thing, but… it’s not a good thing for carpet padding. After re-carpeting parts of our home, we started to feel bumps under the carpet. The carpet guys came back and pulled up the carpet to check out the rebond padding.
Rebond padding is made up of chunks of recycled foam material that’s bonded together into a big sheet. Unfortunately, because of its composition, some of the recycled chunks are very hard and dense compared to the rest of the chunks. These are the rock-like bumps I was feeling under the carpet. Maybe these chunks were recycled Nike shoes or something, I don’t know, but they made the carpet a disaster.
So we’re getting the rebond padding replaced with a rubber type pad. Beware the rebond!
July 9, 2007 @ 8:52 pm
is rebond etymologically related to “bondo”? pulpconnection research demanded!
July 10, 2007 @ 6:52 am
is rebond etymologically related to “bondo”? pulpconnection research demanded!
February 23, 2008 @ 3:18 am
i have had the same experience. it feels like there are jelly beans or trash under the carpet.
February 23, 2008 @ 1:18 pm
i have had the same experience. it feels like there are jelly beans or trash under the carpet.
February 23, 2008 @ 8:07 am
It is really disappointing to have new carpet (and padding) installed only to encounter the pebbly feeling of the rebond padding.
February 23, 2008 @ 6:07 pm
It is really disappointing to have new carpet (and padding) installed only to encounter the pebbly feeling of the rebond padding.
February 1, 2011 @ 2:05 am
That is unfortunate. Like all products, there are huge variations in quality between different products. Rebond is not necessarily bad but you do have to be careful to get a better quality product. Some rebond padding in fact is very high quality. Good luck fixing the problem.
February 1, 2011 @ 7:30 am
Thanks. The installers tried to remove the major bumps but there were way too many so they removed it and used more traditional padding.
March 27, 2011 @ 3:30 pm
I’ll post the same information to my blog, thanks for ideas and great article.