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  2. Fitted carpet - Wikipedia

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    The carpet fitter is stretching a carpet onto gripper strip using a manual stretcher tool. Fitted carpet, also wall-to-wall carpet, is a carpet intended to cover a floor entirely. Carpet over 4 meters in length is usually installed with the use of a power-stretcher (tubed or tubeless).

  3. Tack strip - Wikipedia

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    Tack strip being removed from a floor. Tack strip also known as gripper rod, carpet gripper, Smoothedge tackless strip, gripper strip or gripper edge is a thin piece of wood, between 1 and 2 metres (3.3 and 6.6 ft) long and about 3 centimetres (1.2 in) wide, studded with hundreds of sharp nails or tacks used in the installation of carpet.

  4. Carpet - Wikipedia

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    A carpet is a textile floor covering typically consisting of an upper layer of pile attached to a backing. The pile was traditionally made from wool, but since the 20th century synthetic fibers such as polypropylene, nylon, or polyester have often been used, as these fibers are less expensive than wool. The pile usually consists of twisted ...

  5. Flooring - Wikipedia

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    Tactile or rumble strips to warn of for instance a wheelchair ramp, these would normally also be distinctively colored or patterned. Light strips to show an escape route out, especially on airplanes. Moldings or baseboards to decorate the sides of a floor or to cover the edge of a floating floor.

  6. Bigelow-Hartford Carpet Mills - Wikipedia

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    The Bigelow-Hartford Carpet Mills complex stands in the Thompsonville area of western Enfield, Connecticut, separated from the Connecticut River by a railroad right-of-way. On nearly 23 acres (9.3 ha) of land stand seven large brick buildings, dating from about 1895 to 1928, the height of the company's operations in Thompsonville.

  7. Hessian fabric - Wikipedia

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    Hessian was first exported from India in the early 19th century. [5] It was traditionally used as backing for linoleum, rugs, and carpet. [5]In Jamaica and certain parts of the Caribbean (where it is only known as Crocus), [14] many labourers who used to work on the plantations were not often given pleasant materials with which to make clothes.

  8. Pink flame retardants are being used to slow California fires ...

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    Aircraft battling fires raging through the Los Angeles area are dropping more than water: Hundreds of thousands of gallons of hot-pink fire suppressant ahead of the flames in a desperate effort to ...

  9. The Carpetbaggers - Wikipedia

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    On the second page of the novel, as aviator Jonas Cord approaches the landing strip of his father's explosives factory, Robbins writes: "The black roof of the plant lay on the white sand like a girl on the white sheets of a bed, the dark pubic patch of her whispering its invitation into the dimness of the night." In 1961, this was explosive indeed.

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