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Am using cheap carpetright cord carpet with the backing pulled off on the burgundy and rubbed off on the beige.

Sharp stanley with lots of blades i think. Used evo-stick for the first bit but might need to buy lots more cheaper stuff?

Managed to get expanding foam in me hair too.....

Question or statement?

hi futurecut i am doing the same thing to mine tried evo takes long time and messy so asked local carpet fitter he recomended spray on felt carpet spray its good and its quick hope this of help

Spray adhesive - you can get it in haberdashers/fabric shops/hardware shops . It's about a fiver a tin, and although you'll need several tins to do a whole van, you'd only need a couple for a headlining I reckon. It's tacky immediately, and achieves a good finish......will even pretty much hold the carpet on the roof straightaway as long as it's not too heavy.....

Wiki on carpets in campers

Also, for general insulation of campers:-

http://www.club80-90.co.uk/wiki/index.p ... insulation

The Bulley-Hewitt article particularly is good reading if your like a quiet and warm camper

ThaNKS guys, i was getting on ok with brush on evo and flattening the carpet out from the middle with a mini paint roller. I got some spray evo last m=night but noticed it takes much longer to get tacky so will try to get carpetfitters glue from them instead.

Thanks!

Try asking carpetfitters for some 'F3' in bottom of an old tub... pooh to a blanket stuff

What's the best for bonding floor tiles?

Plastic (Amticos, Marley style) ~ F44/F60
Carpet Tiles (scrim backed) ~ F3

Well what a fantastic tip that was. Went to a local small carpet shop and was immediately given half a 15l bucket of F3! Take what i don't use back.

Now if that had been some sort of builders or something i'd have been sworn off the premises. Carpet fitters must be a good lot all over!

hehe - well done! Never harms to ask*

Worth a good few quid at current prices too!

Probably because I know they don't like scraping the barrel, and its probably being paid for by Joe Bloggs up the road having his new garage/office conversion smartened up with carpet stuck down properly 'all-over'.

* though I dropped into a sheetmetal shop the other day having glanced in their bin on the way past, and asked if I could have a few steel strips in there. Was given some sortof... 'that's our pocket money, why assume you can take it for free'

Which I hadn't, if they'd said, OK, givus a couple of quid, I would have! So I left with an aplogoy and then an afterthought.... along the lines of the state of the country

Asif a few ounces of steel was worth moe than few pence