A carpet gripper designed for every installation.
Our team has over 100 years of combined gripper-making knowledge and experience. Using these years of experience, we have designed a carpet gripper specifically suited to Australian and New Zealand conditions. We sell the right gripper for every installation with different nail, strip width and pin heights choices. We have a careful eye for detail to ensure product excellence in every carton we supply.
Carpet gripper specifications
ANCHORING NAILS
STANDARD (No anchoring nails)
• For automatic staplers and nailers in wood floors
• With adhesive on concrete and hard to nail floors
HARDENED CONCRETE (Black Kongo® Nails)
• 12 gauge hardened concrete nails
• For concrete and hard concrete floors
• Regular concrete nails penetrate up to 12.1mm
• 2-Hit concrete nails penetrate up to 10mm
WOOD (Ring Shank Nails)
•13 gauge ring shank anchoring nail
• For use over wood floors
• Regular wood nails penetrate up to 13.1mm
• Long wood nails penetrate up to 16.4mm
DUAL PURPOSE
• 12 gauge hardened concrete nail with ring shanks
• For use with both wood and concrete substrates
GRIPPER THICKNESS
7mm Gripper
For use with low density 6-8mm underlays.
5mm Double Bond Gripper
For use with 4.7mm foam slab underlay.
Low Profile Gripper
For installations without underlay.
NO WATERFALL APPEARANCE
Choose the correct gripper height to match your underlay height.
PIN LENGTHS
We set 3 heights to suit different carpet backings.
• Long Pin = 6.5mm high
• Medium Pin = 5.5mm high
• Short Pin = 4.5mm high
(Where no pin height is noted, assume ‘medium pin’)
LONG PIN (L)
Used with woven, rough or thicker carpet backings
MEDIUM PIN (M)
Used with most carpet backings
SHORT PIN (S)
Used with light weight or thinner carpet backings
33mm ARCHI 3-PIN GRIPPER
Where the stretch area exceeds 7m in any direction AS / NZS 2445 requires a commercial (3-Pin) gripper.
33mm Archi
70 lengths / 84m
7mm Poplar / Pine
AS / NZS 2445 Compliant
HOLDING THE FULL STRETCH
• Quality carpet gripper holds 6,580 Newton force ‘pull’
• Kongo® HIGH TENSILE pin nails don’t bend – they hold
• The right plywood is important for holding power
• Narrow 2-Pin grippers require HIGH DENSITY PLYWOOD
• Wider 3-Pin grippers can use lower density Poplar or Pine
25mm DOMESTIC 2-PIN GRIPPER
2-Pin grippers are suitable in domestic installations where the area covered is less than 7m in any direction.
25mm EXTRA WIDE™
100 lengths / 120m
7mm Poplar / Pine
AS / NZS 2445 Compliant
FORMALDEHYDE
- Formaldehyde is a Category 2 CARCINOGEN that may cause cancer by inhalation
- Its presence is marked on MSDS’s
- BBS used E0 (E Zero) plywood to limit formaldehyde exposure
LONG-POINT® NAILS
- The nail tip separates the substrate for the nail shank to enter
- Kongo® nails have elongated LONG-POINT® – extra sharpness and better penetrating power
PLYWOOD TYPE
- 5-ply birch and poplar / pine with uniform veneer layers
- Narrower 2-Pin grippers need dense plywood to generate a proper holding strength
- Wider 3-Pin grippers generate enough hold using softer Poplar / Pine plywood
