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  2. 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.

  3. Carpet - Wikipedia

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    Since the 19th and 20th century, where necessary for wall-to-wall carpet, different widths of carpet can be seamed together with a seaming iron and seam tape (formerly it was sewn together) and fixed to a floor over a cushioned underlay (pad) using nails, tack strips (known in the UK as gripper rods), adhesives, or occasionally decorative metal ...

  4. Sticky pad - Wikipedia

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    Sticky pads are friction devices used to prevent objects from sliding on a surface, by effectively increasing the friction between the object and the surface.. Sticky pads are used to fix items to otherwise smooth surface that are leaned or that moves, so that objects put on that surface could off due to insufficient friction when the surface inclines or moves. [1]

  5. Wilko - Wikipedia

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    Wilko.com Limited (trading as Wilko) is a British home improvement and homeware retailer. It was founded as Wilkinson's by James Kemsey Wilkinson and Mary Cooper in 1930, opening its first store as a hardware retailer in Leicester .

  6. Arthropod adhesion - Wikipedia

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    Smooth adhesive pads are found in arboreal possums, which are marsupials that glide between trees. [1] The possum is also capable of using smooth adhesive pads to climb vertically, making use of large toe pads. [1] The pads consist of an epidermal layer of stratified squamous epithelium, with the outer most layer's cells being flattened. [1]

  7. Fitted carpet - Wikipedia

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    A "carpet gripper" tack strip, for a fitted carpet. The introduction of tack strip, "tackless strip", "gripper strip", or "Smoothedge" simplified the installation of wall-to-wall carpeting, increasing the neatness of the finish at the wall. Because gripper strips are essentially the same thickness as underlay, using gripper strips yields a ...

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