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What Does The ‘gauge’ Mean When Buying Carpet?
I’m looking at buying a carpet and I keep seeing figures like:
1/ 8th Guage
1/ 10th Guage etc.
What does this mean and what would you expect from a decent quality carpet?
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12:08 am on February 7th, 2010
That is how thick it is. 1/8 would be thicker than 1/10. Do you want thin carpet that will wear through, or thicker that will take more abuse?
1:16 am on February 7th, 2010
its the Hessian on the back of the carpet.!!!
8:02 am on February 7th, 2010
i believe it means the depth of the carpet?
11:17 am on February 7th, 2010
It means how thick the pile(carpeting) is. If is is indoor/outdoor carpeting then it is often flat. But the higher the guage the thicker the top part where you walk on it is. The thicker kind is more expensive and harder to vacuum. The dirt falls into the pyle and you can’t vacuum it up as easily.
3:51 pm on February 7th, 2010
Gauge is the term used to describe the thickness of the pile in a carpet.
9:47 pm on February 7th, 2010
It’s the number of tufts per square inch.
12:54 am on February 8th, 2010
I think its the thickness of the carpet, but unsure exactly in what measures they mean.
5:08 am on February 8th, 2010
it is the decity of the carpet eg= In tufted carpet, gauge, or the reciprocal of the number of tuft rows per inch of width, is a major density factor. For example, a 1/8-gauge carpet has eight tuft rows per inch of width and a 5/32-gauge carpet has 6.4 rows per
you get it now =)
8:53 am on February 8th, 2010
I know what the gauge means when eating carpet.
2:56 pm on February 8th, 2010
In knitting, gauge is the number of rows and/or stitches per length/width of a knitted fabric, e.g., “5 stitches/inch and 7 rows/inch in stockinette stitch”. Alternatively, the gauge may be given in metric units, e.g., “22 stitches and 30 rows in 10 cm of stockinette stitch”.