Carpeting over dusty floorboards

dave82_2

Hi Just about to have carpets fitted in a house we have been renovating.

The floorboards are quite dusty from the plastering etc. I have hovered and removed any lumps of plaster.

The carpet fitters are going to lay paper. My question is should I spend time getting the floorboards as clean as I can or is that the point in laying the paper?

Owain_Moneysaver

That's the point of laying paper.

Go over the floorboards with a damp mop and the vacuum and that should be fine.

Any lumps of grit though may cause lumps under the carpet.

dave82_2

Cheers :beer:

greyteam1959

The point of laying the paper is to seal the gaps between the floorboards or else dirt will come up through the floorboards & mark the carpet over the years.
The paper is not used to cover cr*p on the floorboards which should be cleaned as best you can.
HTH

Innys

mervyn11 wrote: »

The point of laying the paper is to seal the gaps between the floorboards or else dirt will come up through the floorboards & mark the carpet over the years.
The paper is not used to cover cr*p on the floorboards which should be cleaned as best you can.
HTH

Really? How will the dirt come up the floorboards, pass through the underlay and then end up marking the carpet?

dave82_2

It's true when you vacum it draws the dirt up through the underlay and carpet if you don't lay paper first. I have seen light coloured carpets wrecked because they didn'tt have paper. This is also why I am being so paranoid about it!

greyteam1959

dave82 wrote: »

It's true when you vacum it draws the dirt up through the underlay and carpet if you don't lay paper first. I have seen light coloured carpets wrecked because they didn'tt have paper. This is also why I am being so paranoid about it!

Thats it....our light coloured bedroom carpet was a right mess after 10 years.
Vacuuming sucks right though the carpet & underlay.
Also the air movement in the space between the floor & ceiling can be quite considerable in some houses.