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  Bath & Bedding Products Gina Christopher Bath Textiles: Cotton dominates the market for towels. Cotton is highly absorbent and soft, features that make it attractive and efficient for towing. Flax, which has slightly higher moisture absorption and produces less length than cotton, is also used, but in small amounts. The harsh hand and lower abrasion resistance of flax preclude its use in bath towels, and the comparatively high cost of the fiber limits its use in dish towels. Stable colorants are important to have with textile bath products to make sure they have good color fastness to laundering, color fastness to crocking, and color fastness to light. Textile bath products are often wet, so it is important to make sure that there is no color transfer when rubbed against the body or other fabrics. The humid conditions present in bathrooms are an inviting breeding ground for unwanted microbes, such as bacteria and fungi. Manufacturers are responding to the growing con...

  Carpet Installation & Maintenance Gina Christopher   Wall to Wall Installation: Wall-to-wall carpet installation methods include stretch-in and glue down. Stretch-in installations involve stretching roll goods and fastening them over pin holding strips that have been secured to the perimeter of the floor space. The strips are nailed or glued to the floor with the pins angled toward the wall. A power stretcher is used to place uniform stretch over the surface of the carpet, and a knee kicker is used to grip and anchor the edges over the pins. Glue down installations involve securing floor covering structures to the floor with an adhesive. When no cushion is used the procedure may be referred to as direct glue down; when an attached cushion is involved, the procedure is called double glue down. The same procedures are used in both operations except that structures without a cushion are rolled onto the adhesive and structures with a cushion are pressed into the adhe...

  Carpet Cushions Gina Christopher   Rebond: Rebond works well under most cut pile carpets in normal traffic. Rebond padding is the most common type for residential use. Made from recycled foam pieces, it’s affordable, eco-friendly, and available in multiple densities and thicknesses. Rebond comes in different weights such as 6lb or 8lb. The differences usually refer to pad weight per cubic foot. Higher numbers often resist crushing longer.   Synthetic & Real horsehair pads: Synthetic horsehair pads are very resilient and resistant to crushing or flattening. Real horsehair pads are also durable but may not have the same level of resistance as synthetic horsehair pads. Synthetic horsehair pads offer a firmer cushion than real horsehair pads. Real horsehair pads provide softer cushioning due to their natural fibers. Synthetic horsehair pads are generally more affordable than real horsehair pads. Synthetic horsehair pads are also less prone to mol...

  Carpet & Carpet Recycling Gina Christopher   Carpet Properties & Styles: Pile height is the length of the piled tufts above the backing. Pile height is normally reported in decimal form, and is routinely supplied to contract designers, architects, and others who specify floor covering.  Pile weight is how heavy the yarn is by square yard and is usually measured in ounces. Pile density is determined by the closeness of the pile Tufts in the wear layer. The yarn loops in some soft floor coverings are cut, producing independent Tufts. In other coverings, the loops are left uncut, resulting in a loop. Multi-level loop pile styles show noticeable differences in the height of their pile yarns. The variations can be used to create an all-over seemingly random texture, or they may be designed to create a pattern. These services are quite durable if the density is reasonably high. Combining cut loops, uncut loops, and multiple pile heights produce broad possibili...