carpet

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!