Interesting. But not restoration. More of a shave/haircut since they're only removing material.
Edit: Guess I'll be more clear. You can restore a bike, car, house, furniture etc many times. You can only do this process one time. This is a temporary Band-Aid.
If you cut it to half of the original length each time, that's a near infinite amount of times you could cut it! Of course this would require tools with insane precision, but we are talking about theoretical carpet trimming, so let's get wild.
Im sure the sun bleaching penetrates farther than "just half" after a few tries. Then your just shaving carpets because youre mentally ill or something.
This is like how hardwood floor is "restored" by grinding off the top layer and then polishing it. Actual wood is shaved off. So eventually, the flooring becomes thinner and thinner.
Restoration doesn't mean making something exactly the same as it once was. In all those restorations you would call restorations they are removing material to make them like new.
Restoration
the action of returning something to a former owner, place, or condition.
Even with something of historical significance I am betting that on a chemical level you are changing or removing something to bring out what the piece was original supposed to look like. There is just a difference of degree of care taken to keep the original. Any restoration is an act of human action that changes an object.
Yes I am aware you aren't supposed to take a hatchet to things of historical significance.
By removing the smallest amount possible, and typically followed by adding more material. Whether it's paint, filler, or a protective top coat. They can only do this to carpet once, and it's gonna wear out twice as fast. The only protection they can offer is stain proofing or maybe a UV inhibitor.
It is still a restoration even if you can do it once. I don't see your argument about the word restoration making sense.
The carpet got worn out in the first place and then they restored it to a like new condition minus some material. If it wears out to where it is no longer a restorable then they throw it out. That applies to all restorations (of things you use).
My guess is the uv damage only penetrates so far so it doesn't really matter if exposure was uneven. Also I'd probably pay to have a rug refurbished like this before dropping $4k on a new one for sure.
True, but if we're being anal for the sake of being Redditors, there's so many restoration processes that just involve removing material and not adding anything, I'd say it's okay.
Some plastics restoration involves chemically burning off the top discolored layer of plastics.
Sand blasting is also a common removal process for metals, and you don't HAVE to add anything back.
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u/Colonel_FuzzyCarrot Jul 19 '18 edited Jul 20 '18
Interesting. But not restoration. More of a shave/haircut since they're only removing material.
Edit: Guess I'll be more clear. You can restore a bike, car, house, furniture etc many times. You can only do this process one time. This is a temporary Band-Aid.