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Last Updated: Monday, May 10th, 2010, Created: Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Weather Restrictions: Indoor/Outdoor Carpet Adhesive

. WEATHER & RENOVATION is a joint project of: CTV.ca and JonEakes.com designed to help you plan home improvement projects around weather restrictions. If you have just been checking the weather for your project on the CTV web site -- welcome to JonEakes.com where you will find all the details for your home improvements. If you started here and are looking for weather restrictions related to home improvements, follow this link to CTV.ca where you can get your local weather forecast together with weather restrictions for specific products  on the bottom of the page.

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Gluing carpet down to wood outdoors is almost asking for trouble as the carpet will definitely hold a lot of moisture and can cause the wood to rot prematurely. If you must put outdoor carpet on a wooden surface, make sure that it is pressure treated wood or pressure treated plywood (to prevent rot), that it has positive drainage and that it is thoroughly ventilated below. Click here for information on gluing carpet to concrete. With either wood or concrete you may want to consider self draining carpet or carpet tiles, usually used on large boats, which install with risers under the carpet to allow everything to dry quickly. They stay nicer longer.

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