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Installing the Carpet

Bob meets with Heather Sheehan and Scot Lintz of Allied Signal to look at the carpet for the living quarters in the governor's mansion.
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Installing the Carpet

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" And joining us now Heather Sheehan at Scotland's. From allied signal which makes the -- for the carpet right that's right okay. We -- look closely with the First Lady here to select the carpet for the private living quarters in the office area and and she had -- a couple of key points that you wanted to make about the selection one -- this -- very high quality parts and nice deep pile all right excellent carpet the other thing was important to -- environmental. Aspects of the carpet she wanted to be environmentally friendly. So a couple of things that we did with her working on that is. -- looked at how -- how would affect the air quality. They select -- and so nylon carpet to ensure that there wouldn't be any in impact on the air quality for the people living here there's actually no outcasts -- danger of that with and so none at all and and especially with an area -- there's no issue about any chemicals being used in the installation."

" It's not being glued down her -- down and the pad is not a synthetic Betsy you'll have to worry about any kind of allergic reactions that's absolutely correct."

" The other key thing about this from an environmental standpoint the recycle ability of the -- yeah. This carpet is completely recyclable it'll never -- a landfill and go to renovate the -- he had governor's mansion in fact Scott."

" It's made from recycled carpet right yes it's that fiber that these carpets -- made from originated someplace else there were already used once before I was network. Well to start we we expect it's. And this is a scrap of some of the old carpet that was here in the mansion right yes fourteen billion pounds of the stuff in up in landfills every year. -- device technology to sort this sort of feeling identified as nylon six recyclable so this basically as an infrared tester. And if it's nylon six what are you -- that we. They'll let should present a facility in Augusta Georgia where there will be recycled or process of the process involves shredding -- off. Well we we take home bales. I don't mean to the shutters and Judy polymers nation comes. -- relax."

" Thank you let's talk about how it's bound on the edges notices five sided room that's where we've got a kind of custom area right and Eric Albert. Is what you've been finding it right yes what we did here to bring in the rug -- down all the way around inside. Since this front does have an angle -- we cut -- angle on site make sure we get -- angle correct that's important there's a nice twelve inch mortar of exposed wood floor around the whole perimeter it exactly. And while we do after we cut to angle I sit here that I can bond that's on site. One advantage to hand binding is you don't see the stitching that you have one machine guns okay. -- so you've stapled the this just a cotton. Exactly it's instant quarter while managing cotton. And then we needed and then we've looked at or potential -- latex here. Latex glue latex it isn't the same thing is on the backing animals are. Alike expect he's. Once we blow it I like that. And we had finished it and then you have that nice edge absolutely unit. And you -- do that Iran will remove the right exactly you have a heart and Iran and we hadn't been right around our. Leo that's how they do that excellent."

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