Recently, a flooring inspector reached out to share a story about a flooring failure that he had been called to inspect. The claim stated that the carpet tiles had curled. The first inspector was MIA and the independent flooring inspection school that commissioned him was up in arms over the report as well as the missing inspector. It seems it would not be far removed to assume he was in someone’s trunk over a bad report. The second inspector was reluctant to go but did so anyway.
Turns out the owners of the facility in which the carpet tile had been installed had decided to turn off the HVAC unit during the pandemic to “save money.” The adhesive underneath the carpet tile was not given adequate time to dry before the system was shut off. Some of the spaces had walls of windows, and the carpet tiles were baked by the heat of the sun while the other spaces were completely in the shade. The carpet tiles in the shaded rooms miraculously managed to survive.