Premium Rug Pad
The thickest and densest pad we make, for anyone who wants the floor to stop being hard. A quarter inch of recycled felt on a gray rubber grip back. On stone, tile or concrete it is the one that changes how a room feels to walk on.
- Thickness
- 0.25″
- Best for
- Thick and heavy rugs
- Cushion
- The most we make
- Grip
- Full
from $55.00
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Is this the right pad for you?
✓Choose this one if
- Your rug is thick and heavy. Hand-knotted, wool pile, shag.
- The floor is hard and cold. Tile, stone, concrete, a basement slab.
- You want the most cushion available and your rug has the weight to hold it down.
- You want the room quieter. Density is what absorbs sound, and this is the densest.
→Choose a different one if
- Your rug is thin. A thick pad under a light rug makes the rug slide on the pad. Use the All-Purpose instead.
- A door swings over the rug. Check the clearance before choosing a quarter inch.
- You want fast warm-up from a radiant heated floor. Felt insulates, so thicker means slower.
- It is going over carpet or outdoors. Neither is this pad's job.
Where it works
Every hard floor. It earns its keep most on the cold, unforgiving ones.
On radiant heat: safe, and we have tested it. But felt insulates, so a quarter inch slows the warm-up more than a thinner pad does. If the heat matters more than the cushion, step down to the Superior.
Which way up, and how to trim it
Felt side up, rubber side down. The gray rubber meets the floor.
This is the one pad in our range that scissors will not handle cleanly. Use a utility knife and a straight edge. Lay the pad flat, put the rug face down on top, mark an inch and a half inside the rug edge, and cut with the blade against the straight edge. Change the blade if it starts to drag.
Specifications
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Living with it
Oriental Rug & Carpet Clinic · Denver
Why we sell this one
We are a rug cleaning company first. Rugs come into our shop with the pad still stuck to the back of them: crumbling foam, adhesive gone to glue, cheap latex turned to orange powder that took the floor finish with it.
That is why we sell four pads and not forty. Felt and rubber, needled and bonded, nothing that breaks down into dust in five years. When a rug comes back to us for its next cleaning, we would rather the pad still be a pad.
Frequently asked
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Is the thickest pad the best pad?
Only if your rug can carry it. That is the part most people get backwards. A heavy hand-knotted rug on a Premium pad is the best a rug can feel. A light flatweave on the same pad slides around on it.
Will a quarter inch be too high?
Check your doors first. A quarter inch of pad plus the rug itself is enough to catch a door that swings over it. Thresholds are worth a look too.
Does it help with noise?
More than the others. Density is what absorbs sound, and at 10.5 lb per cubic foot this is the densest pad we sell. It is a real difference in a room with hard floors and hard walls.
What size do I order?
Order the size of your rug. We cut the pad three inches smaller in each direction, so you get an inch and a half of clearance on every side and the pad never shows.
The size guide covers measuring, odd shapes and what to do if your rug is between sizes.
How long does it take?
Every pad is cut to order, so it is made for your rug rather than pulled off a shelf. Shipping is free in the contiguous 48 states, and you have 30 days to return it.
Not sure this is the one?
The other three, and what each is for:
Tell us about your rug
Call 1-833-RUG-PADS and you will get someone who cleans rugs for a living. Tell us the rug and the floor, and we will tell you which pad. If none of ours is right, we will say so.
