Can Feel Gripper Through Carpet

Hello my newly installed carpet has lots of spikes aka carpet grippers which can be felt along the perimeter.

Can feel gripper through carpet.

Readers also shopped for our promise to readers we keep receiving tons of questions of readers who are going to buy rug on carpet gripper eg. The carpet gripper comes with different length spikes but the normal stuff is classed as medium as shown here. Yes they have used the wrong gripperrods you can get short medium and long pin gripper. It was quite painful.

Medium is ok for 90 of carpets dont let them bash the pins down as that will lock the carpet on to them. Does anyone have any advice about how to manage the spikes protuding through. Shell busey shows you how to screw through carpeted floor. The underlay lies inside the wood mounting of the of the carpet gripper so the use of underlay or its thickness has no effect on this.

I m sorry you didn t chose the. Some carpets depending on thickness we use a short pin gripper from gripperrods international with nails that are approx 2 3mm this solves the issue of the spikes coming through the carpet. You chose the wrong carpet. These are usually the cheapest carpets funny enough.

You say that you can t feel any. They should have warned you beforehand. It is all down to length of spikes and thickness of carpet. Dont buy thin carpet in future especially from carpetright.

If you carpet is thin or very short pile you will feel the gripper where it meets the tiles. Commercial carpet is supposed to be glued down. Carpet gripper problem post by markus67 tue aug 02 2011 8 07 am. It doesn t make sense to buy an.

Make sure your new carpet has a thick felt backing. If you can feel the pins through the carpet it shouldn t be stretched in. For more videos or to ask shell a question on any home improvement topic go to http askshell co.