This office building I am working is currently having carpets

>>1045690
I assume if it gets damaged they always have the option of replacing a square instead of the whole thing but you could always cut in a new piece.

>>1045691
They are called carpet tiles, they come in boxes like that, no one is cutting carpet into squares that I can see. This offers a way to have carpet in heavy foot traffic areas such as offices / shops etc. Since each piece is glued individually, each tile you step onto is just as fixed as the last one, it would be near impossible to move 1 peice of carpet that size and cut it.

>>1045692
This. Funny thing is, in 10 years that make/model will be discontinued. Unless someone has the foresight to order a few rolls I don't think checkering it is going to save more money than purchasing a few heavy stanley steamers.

they can be repaired live. that's the advantage. if someone stains the fuck out of it you just pull up a few tiles. if they decide to replace the carpet in the future, they can just work from cubicle to cubicle. it's not like broadloom where you would need to remove all the furniture in a 20th level office to lay it. that and delamination, clumping.

>>1045696
This you dumb fucks.

>>1045698

You're a fucking retard. That color is pretty damn common, as well as type that is being used. Also a lot of places will rip out and replace before that shit happens.

>>1045690
>tfw, Evil Boss puts you on cut-carpet-into-squares duty..

Op... if not troll then kill yourself.
"They cut it in small square pieces"

If troll... 11/10

>>1045690
if you need to replace a tile, you can jsut pull it up and replace it, without having the rip up everything

>>1045690
welcome to every office and institution ever

>>1045698
If you actually use your eyes you will see there's about 10-20 different colors and pasternson that carpet. You could probably replace sections with fucking anything that's remotely close, and no one would notice.

>>1045690
Like other said, it's commercial carpet tile. Easy to replace damaged or worn tiles, especially in high traffic areas. They also allow for reconfiguration of partitions without fucking up the entire floor.

It's pretty easy to call op a retard and yes that cutting up comment was stupid, but can any of you honestly ever say you have seen or even heard about a carpet tile being replaced? It's all marketing bullshit, nobody is paying to pull up a single fucking tile then prep the surface to get the new one flat and plane with the others to not be a trip hazard.

>>1045975
I replace a small area or tie in carpet tile inti a new room at a hospital in the area I work around probably once every two months

>>1045696
This

It also allows easier access to below-floor hatches, power sockets etc that are common in office buildings.

>>1045977
Nope. Doesn't happen. Literally impossible. Carpet industry shill detected.

>>1045975
There crews work conference / exhibition venues, doing literally fuck all else other than pulling up and putting back x-million grey carpet tiles. Event organisers pay for a carpeted floor? - 'throw it back in, boys' - they don't? 'rip it out'

Shit dont get glued tho, they big heavy fuckers. And I dunno how many they replace in a year, but I'll guarantee, its a lot.

>>1045981
I install flooring for a living but I have only ever had hospitals pay for replacements. Carpet tile is easy money but I would rather do solid hardwood any day

>>1045975
I have seen.
I occasionally work in a traveling exhibition and those tiles are commonish. I have ripped out some with pallet shifters and the shit and they get replaced.

Op, I work casino security and they do our carpet like this. Very high traffic so stuff is always being replaced, machines get moved around, or tables. and they just cover the spot the machine was after covering the in floor outlet with a square of wood. Also drunks dropping cigars burning it.

They make for pretty good repairs and just about anywhere in the building you can pull one up, connect a machine to the below floor power source or change arrangments easy.

>>1045696
What surprises me, is that OP has never seen this before. It's pretty much standard in every office, and even a lot of shops. Basically any commercial setting refurbished in the last twenty years uses them.

>>1045740
>20th level office to lay it.

Also it's damn near impossible to lug a 25ft roll of carpet up an elevator - much easier to transport a 24" box of tiles.

>>1045975
Used to manage a radio shack franchise, we replaced carpet tiles several times.

>>1046080
Op here. Idk man. Never worked in a highrise or office before so never seen it. Plus a couple of times I was sure I saw someone with a cutter working on bigger carpet piecesm assumed they buybl a full roll the cut it up.

>>1046241
They would never cut them of a roll the way that you lay carpet tiles they need to all be the exact same size and have factory edges or the floor will look like garbage. The only prices that get cut are ones along walls and for floor outlets

It's a common commercial thing. My elementary, middle and high school had them, and most offices do. It requires no tack board or stretching, it's easier to get to the job, cheaper, and let's you replace small sections if you need to, without redoing the whole floor.

>>1045975
Yes, I've replaced many of them.

>>1046241
Okay, so maybe not a troll? But they were cutting time into smaller bits, much like normal tile?

All I can say is try carrying a twelve foot roll of carpet in an elevator or a stairwell.

if they are paid by the hour they are milking ya for money lool

>>1046241
If they're cutting them, it's probably for specific areas that are too small for a standard sized tile, or weird shapes around fixtures.

You don't need to have worked in an office to have seen it. You've probably been in plenty of stores and office reception areas with it, just never noticed or paid attention until now.

>>1045690
It's so the squares of carpet can be quickly replaced. This is important so that any evidence of accidental hooker murders can be promptly covered up.

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>>1046119
how do you think they fit these things in the elevator?

>>1045975
>chinese guy ate noodles for lunch
>sitting at photo printing station choosing photos to print at my work
>leans over, vomits up whole noodles because chinks dont chew their food
>giant pile of stinky noodles on floor
>carefully rip up carpet tile
>throw in dumpster out back
>rip up tile from the backroom hallway
>replace one i threw out from the shop floor

>>1045975
Facilities Manager for a school district here. I've seen hundreds of individual tiles replaced.

We have two pallets of the tiles in storage. They really are a great way to save money long term.

Kid pukes on a floor and carpet doesn't get extracted properly? Pull up the tiles.

Kid sneaks in fucking red koolaid to school and spills it everywhere? Pull up the tiles.

We also replace the ones in the main hall ways about once every other year as they start to get destroyed. Only downside there is there is always a clear line where you stopped replacing.

Biggest bonus is that I just have a building engineer replace them when needed instead of hiring a contractor to haul in 15 ft broadloom goods and install them.

The things are a pain to get up once glued down, but luckily you don't have to be nice to the one you're removing.

>>1046503
>difficult
nah you just use a wedge.

IT guy here,

Floor tiles are used so that we can access underfloor wiring and install floor boxes under desks etc without ripping up/cutting the carpet.

>>1046503
A lot of places have used a multi colored randomized patters, so that you can replace a tile without worrying about color continuity. Not a rainbow pattern, more like using 7 different shades of blue in a randomized gradient.

>>1047110
This, carpet tiles are generally used for false floors, or just ease of replacement.

I work in a laboratory environment. Every six months or year or so we move in a new server rack or piece of heavy equipment and move something else out. With carpet tiles you just slap some new squares in place and you're good to go.

In the old lab we'd the facilities manager bitch and moan at us every time we wanted to put holes in the floor. Even when we promised that we'd pay to fix the carpet out of our budget he'd still bitch and moan about non-matching colors.

Carpet tiles are a great solution if you don't want to work on bare concrete or linoleum.

>>1046451
They are almost always many many pieces

Pretty good