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Three Years of Scissorless

What changed in how the trade specifies pads, and what did not.

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Three Years of Scissorless

Three years in, the shift is not that designers love rug pads. It is that they have stopped thinking about them, which was always the goal. Cut-to-order sizing plus a field-adjustable edge turned a recurring install-day risk into a line on an order form.

What actually changed?

The decision moved upstream. Pads used to be solved on site, by whoever was holding the shears. Now they are solved at order time, by whoever knows the rug's dimensions.

What did not change?

Designers still do not want to think about rug pads, and they never will. Anything that requires enthusiasm about a rug pad is solving the wrong problem.

Where does it go next?

Deeper into contract and hospitality, where per-room labor multiplies hardest, and further into the retail channel, where the cutting table was always the thing nobody wanted to own.

Published 2026-08-11. Last updated 2026-08-11.

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Related questions

How much time do perforated rug pads save on an install?

Measuring, taping, and hand-cutting a felt pad to a rug typically runs twenty to forty-five minutes per rug, plus cleanup. A perforated pad needs seconds per adjusted side and no cleanup, so most teams recover the better part of a working hour on a multi-rug install.

Is the perforation technology patented?

Yes. The perforated custom-cut rug pad is UnderItAll's patented innovation and is not available from conventional pad suppliers. It is the reason a pad can be both cut to order and adjustable after it arrives.

How are trade rug pads different from retail rug pads?

Retail pads are made to fit a shelf: a handful of stock sizes, usually a fiber-and-rubber composite. Trade pads are made to fit a rug: cut to order, denser felt, latex free, and supported by an account that can answer a lead-time question during a client meeting.

Why do hospitality designers care about pad cutting time?

Because it multiplies. Ten minutes per guestroom across a 180-key property is thirty hours of crew time on the critical path of an overnight or phased install, for a task that produces no design value.

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