I built a home theater in my basement with tiered seating for 3 rows of seats, each row rising 6 inches. The first row of seats is on the concrete, the second row on a plywood platform 6 inches up, the last row on a plywood platform 12 inches up. I am now ready for the carpeting. It seems that the installer will have an easy time installing the carpet onto the platforms as they are plywood and they can nail on the standard tack strips and just stretch out the carpet...
My question is how will they install the carpet on the concrete? I have hot water heat tubing imbedded in the concrete slab, so I dont want them just shooting nails in there just for tack strips and risk a puncture. Also the front area by the TV screen is radiused so tack strips wont bend those corners anyway. Will the installers simply do a glue down for the concrete area then? Or do they have some way of gluing the tack strips? If they do a full glue down, how do they handle padding and vapor barrier?
Thanks, I am really in the dark about carpeting installs, this is the first home I've ever owned that had even a single room of carpeting in it, (Im a hardwood kinda guy, but carpeting will work better acoustically in the theater).
I hope to post some photos in a month when completed.
Thanks