Depends on the padding but the smooth or shiny side up.
Carpet padding face up.
This side goes up this allows the carpet to move across it naturally as you install the carpet and unless.
How to lay carpet padding side note make sure skin side is up it might look like a mesh or smooth plastic.
The carpet cushion council tests and certifies padding that offers minimal emission of potentially toxic gases source.
It is the section of a carpet which does not face up so consumers rarely interact with it.
Or your carpet will be hard to positon and the pad may rip if you have a pad that was sold for people.
However carpet backing is extremely important providing.
Carpet padding is usually a foam underlayment specifically designed for installation under broadloom carpet.
What side of the carpet padding goes up.
Most carpet padding consists of polyurethane foam the same stuff that s in furniture mattresses and even car seats.
Carpet backing is exactly what it sounds like.
This should be up.
If you re installing over wood floors the moisture barrier goes up to prevent.
In maine a program has been set up to reprocess waste carpet fibers into carpet padding source.
You may be looking at the scrim that lets the carpet slide over the pad.
The back of a carpet.
The carpet padding may come up in portions or pieces with some of the pieces left sticking to the sub flooring.
Some carpet paddings have a webbing or moisture barrier coating on one side.
Carpet cushion council green label.
Excess water food and dirt residue and other spills can soak through your carpet and cause the pad underneath to deteriorate.
While your carpet may be.
If that is the case then you will need to take your scraping.
Some have like a netting type side.
You also may find that the carpet padding is disintegrating.