"Indoor outdoor carpet - anyone use?" Topic

I was at the local home improvement store and there were some free samples of carpet and I grabbed two that I though might prove useful.

I was just wondering if anyone had ever worked with this type of plastic materials, anything to look out for, and good weathering techniques, will it just crumble into a mess if I cut small sections out of it.

I'd love to hear any advice anyone has on working with it.
DZT

That is a courser version of it (plastic strips, instead of closed fiber loops -- similar to Berber carpets, which is the type of Indoor/Outdoor Carpet I use). I used a 9' x 6' piece of the Berber-like, green carpet, as the base covering for my Ping Pong Table, and it is great stuff. If it gets dirty, I vacuum it; if that doesn't work, I take it outside, and I hose it off.

To make matching hills, I took the 1' x 5' strip I cut off of the end (my Ping Pong Table is 9' x 5'), and glued it to packing foam pieces (open cell, the type computers are packed in), cut to shape. To cover the sloping sides of the foam, I glued on green felt. It is not perfect, nor is it 'realistic' looking, but it works, and it is inexpensive. These foam-based hills will not slide around on top of the carpet, which is helpful.

They make the closed loop, Berber type, in various colors: green, brown, black, and blue. These can be used for various types of terrain, if desired. The carpet is long-wearing, and it is easy to clean. I use the area rug anti-slip material beneath my carpet, on top of my Ping Pong Table. This stuff is meant to be used beneath area rugs on hardwood floors, to keep it from sliding. It is inexpensive, washable (over time, it loses its tackiness, and it won't hold the carpet in place, but laundry washing it with towels, brings it back like new -- best to air-dry it), and quite easy to cut to size. It should be fairly easy to apply paint to these carpets, to create a mottled appearance, but I chose to keep mine uniform. Cheers!

Our club has 2'x2' pieces of the closed loop stuff for DBA tourniments

you can buy 12in squares in pks of 10 in the uk, not too pricy but very useful.
easily cut to size.
we use them all the time in our club.

No, but I've used carpet underlay! …

It's handy being a carpet fitter sometimes.

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Thanks for the info. Right now I am planning on making smaller cut out sections in my terrain building.

I used that same stuff in your picture for my 15mm X-Com project. 6 inch squares for crops. I just hit it with some Dullcote to deshinify it. Holding up fine 2 years later.