Carpet fitting trade jargon
Jargon by trade
- Door bar
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Also known as cover strips, these cover carpet joins at doorways or protect a heavily used piece of carpet from wear.
- Gripper
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A strip of sharp pins fitted to the floor at the edges of a room, to which a carpet is stretched and attached.
- Knee kicker
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A tool used by carpet fitters to help stretch a carpet into place.
- Tufted carpet
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A most common style of modern carpet, cheaper to produce than woven carpets.
- Woven carpet
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A style of carpet, typically patterned and multi-coloured. They are usually hard wearing but more expensive than tufted carpets. Axminster and Wilton carpets are woven types.
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