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Latex Problems Reports

  Tufted carpet has a bonding adhesive that is made of latex, clay, filler, oil, and water and when the balance of these ingredients is not right, or it is not applied evenly, there can be buckling, fuzzing, yarn slippage, delamination, or dimensional stability problems.
The reports in the menu above are purely latex problems; the ones below could fall into another category too.

1. DIMENSIONAL STABILITY
2. Yarn Slippage from Latex Bundle Wrap The tuft-bind was good, but AVERAGE LATEX BUNDLE WRAP 37% -- AVERAGE LATEX PENETRATION’ 48%.
3. Bad Latex Bad Pad The CUSHION 7/16 Inch Rebond and the DENSITY: 3 lb.s per cubit foot. The AVERAGE LATEX BUNDLE WRAP 58% and AVERAGE LATEX PENETRATION’ 54%.
4. Delamination From Latex This inspection was commissioned by the carpet mill and the installers discovered the delamination during the installation.
5. Buckling From Power Stretching in Length This report was done for the dealer. The mill agreed to pay half of the claim. Average un-recovered extension   in the length was1.8% and 1.7% in the width.
6. Yarn Slippage from Latex Bundle Wrap The tuft-bind was good, but AVERAGE LATEX BUNDLE WRAP 37% -- AVERAGE LATEX PENETRATION’ 48%.