Moisture barrier padding is more costly than a standard rebond type of carpet padding.
Vapor barrier carpet.
It will not only help you keep your carpet clean and dry but it will also protect the wood or cement underneath the carpet from becoming damaged.
Any of our vapor barrier types of products can be used in this application over the concrete slab.
Installing a moisture barrier underneath your carpet is a always a good idea.
For a dry mold free finished basement floor always install a vapor barrier before laying a wood subfloor or carpet pad.
Quietwalk sound absorption and vapor barrier 360 sq ft premium 3 mm flooring underlayment.
If you have grass the soil is moist.
I would recommend raven industries vaporblock 20 plus or the vaporblock plus 6 as two of the better ones since they also block out radon methane and voc s.
A moisture barrier is installed right beneath your carpet so that if any liquid is spille d it will not seep through ti the floor base.
The old plastic square test is not reliable enough to risk your time and materials on.
See what goes into waterproofing a basement too.
For pricing and availability.
Density rebond carpet pad with moisture barrier 11 model 150553446 33.
Quietwalk sound absorption and vapor barrier 100 sq ft premium 3 mm flooring underlayment.
Trafficmaster 6 7 16 in.
Any kind of persistent moisture will allow mold to get a foothold and soon ruin carpet or wood flooring.
With a vapor barrier everything below the vb will accumulate moisture until it matches what is in the soil and that is undetermined.
The hope of this type of padding is to make moisture less of a headache.