The crazy-ass new carpet in our apartment building

This morning half a dozen guys came through and ripped out out musty,
stained rancid old carpet and replaced it with this. The building now
has that outgassing polysomethingeline smell of a carpet store, a
cavernous warehouse at the frontage road, lit by fluorescent greenish
light from two floors above, and filled with massive cylinders piled
in stacks of five or stood up on end, massive like smokestacks.