Keeping Mats Flat
Dear Aunt Daisy, Can you help us? My mother bought body carpet for our sitting room and had a strip bound at both ends for a hearthrug. But it will not lie flat and Pp
rides up in a most annoying fashion. As we have profited from many of your hints we decided to ask your advice. Please reply in The Listener, "Masterton." Yes, this problem has arisen again lately in my morning programme. Someone had body carpet laid throughout her flat, and had mats of the sarne made to put down over the most walked-on places. These tats won't stay put. The answer comes from Lincoln. Back the mats with carpet, either an old piece, or with an equal-sized piece of the new one which then has the additional merit of being made reversible. The idea is that only "pile" will really grip and stick to "pile." Just a hem turned over is not enough; it needs either the whole back or a strip at least 8 inches wide. ;
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 713, 13 March 1953, Page 23
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173Keeping Mats Flat New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 713, 13 March 1953, Page 23
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