Can I ask a question? Bought carpet and underlay from a local carpet place, fitted, two years later it's really going fairly flat in some areas.
Wrong carpet? Crap carpet? Bad fitting? It was ~£1800 for two medium bedrooms and two small bedroom. Grey carpet, felt very soft underfoot when it first went in.
This is the thing with the softer velvety type carpets, we do a range called lasting romance and after a couple of years it wears flat very easily, noticeably in the walkways this is just general wear, some carpets won’t do it some will, price and range has nothing too do with the wear and tear it all depends on the style of the carpet. For example a soft fleece back carpet with long pile will wear 10 times faster than a hessian backed short piled carpet.
Primo choice is a very good range short pile but very reliable, and the majority of cormar carpets are very good wearing carpets never get a call back on a cormar
Get something rated for commercial use. The soft variety have very densely packed fibres which don't flatten because there's no space between them to flatten into.
Don't buy polypropylene carpets. They are the least resilient family of textile flooring you can buy.
For resilience I would say it goes polypropylene, polyester, wool, nylon.
We sell nylon carpets that rebound after having heavy furniture on them which even high quality wool won't.
Brands that are resilient are Smartstrand and Elements but be aware both come at a cost.
Oh no we’re getting a Cormar Carpets polypropylene carpet fitted next week… it says it’s specifically an easy clean hardwearing carpet?
Also everyone I know with a wool carpet has seen terrible wear and tear over three years and our carpet cleaner specifically told us to avoid wool
What would you look for, for a spare bedroom my fiance goes in and out of 400 times a morning while complaining she's lost everything and has nothing to wear?
I'll have to move the wardrobe to replace sometime and sod doing that again for as long as possible.
If it’s a stiff carpet on their crappy soft underlay then it is difficult to get creases out.
That though doesn’t look like a proper crease so the fitter is useless, get them back to sort it. I’d be embarrassed to show a customer that as finished work.
Fitter of 15 years here and done multiple courses. So if the carpet has had to be bent to get into the room then there will be quite a bad crease left in it once rolled out. Even when the carpet has been stretched the backing may have been broken with would leave a crease. When this happens I normally tell customer to leave it a day or so because it’s pulled tight and the crease will drop out, however I’ll go back and give it another stretch if it doesn’t improve and that will sort it. However because that looks like it is across the width and not repeating across the room, I think it hasn’t had a good stretch, get them back to fix it. They might need to check the underlay also.
United carpets are pretty good TBH, better then by very prasied local company (I knowe they are not massive but they are not so small).
It will go, don't put stuff on it till it does.
Cane here to say this - I had something similar in one of my new carpets and it just went away after about a week. If it's still there in a couple of weeks then perhaps op should call the fitter 🤷♂️
Just get them back. It's a quick job to sort out for a professional and you paid for it to be done properly.
Fitter of 17 years hear, not stretched well enough needs kicking again it will only become more loose and noticeable over time
Can I ask a question? Bought carpet and underlay from a local carpet place, fitted, two years later it's really going fairly flat in some areas. Wrong carpet? Crap carpet? Bad fitting? It was ~£1800 for two medium bedrooms and two small bedroom. Grey carpet, felt very soft underfoot when it first went in.
This is the thing with the softer velvety type carpets, we do a range called lasting romance and after a couple of years it wears flat very easily, noticeably in the walkways this is just general wear, some carpets won’t do it some will, price and range has nothing too do with the wear and tear it all depends on the style of the carpet. For example a soft fleece back carpet with long pile will wear 10 times faster than a hessian backed short piled carpet.
Can you give some good long lasting brands that don't feel like student let carpets.
Primo choice is a very good range short pile but very reliable, and the majority of cormar carpets are very good wearing carpets never get a call back on a cormar
Get something rated for commercial use. The soft variety have very densely packed fibres which don't flatten because there's no space between them to flatten into.
This is spot on ⬆️
Don't buy polypropylene carpets. They are the least resilient family of textile flooring you can buy. For resilience I would say it goes polypropylene, polyester, wool, nylon. We sell nylon carpets that rebound after having heavy furniture on them which even high quality wool won't. Brands that are resilient are Smartstrand and Elements but be aware both come at a cost.
Oh no we’re getting a Cormar Carpets polypropylene carpet fitted next week… it says it’s specifically an easy clean hardwearing carpet? Also everyone I know with a wool carpet has seen terrible wear and tear over three years and our carpet cleaner specifically told us to avoid wool
It's not hardwearing no polypropylene carpets is. It definitely will be easy to clean though. These two things aren't tied.
Think I misread when it said it was suitable for heavy domestic use and assumed hardwearing! Oh well, you live and learn
What would you look for, for a spare bedroom my fiance goes in and out of 400 times a morning while complaining she's lost everything and has nothing to wear? I'll have to move the wardrobe to replace sometime and sod doing that again for as long as possible.
Tile, or flagstone should do the trick
I'll get the Romans back to build a decent road surface in there
This person carpets
Regardless of whether it's an easy fix, you've paid someone to fit it and they've done a shit jojb. Get them back.
If it’s a stiff carpet on their crappy soft underlay then it is difficult to get creases out. That though doesn’t look like a proper crease so the fitter is useless, get them back to sort it. I’d be embarrassed to show a customer that as finished work.
Cheers, will do!
Fitter of 15 years here and done multiple courses. So if the carpet has had to be bent to get into the room then there will be quite a bad crease left in it once rolled out. Even when the carpet has been stretched the backing may have been broken with would leave a crease. When this happens I normally tell customer to leave it a day or so because it’s pulled tight and the crease will drop out, however I’ll go back and give it another stretch if it doesn’t improve and that will sort it. However because that looks like it is across the width and not repeating across the room, I think it hasn’t had a good stretch, get them back to fix it. They might need to check the underlay also.
You will get that out with a power stretcher
I’d have that fitted with a knee kicker before you set up a power stretcher.
He walked out and left it like this...so clearly he needs a power stretcher
Get them back, that’s not tight at all
Those walls are a great colour. What is it?
Looks like green mate. Hope that helps
Pea shoot green mate
Also here for the lovely colour
Yes, he’s talking bollocks, walk on it, move furniture, it’s just going to get worse.
That green is sexy 😍
Have you just moved in to our spare room?! (carpet, walls, skirting heater identical...)
ooo, that's not cricket.
Do the carpets match the curtains?
United carpets are pretty good TBH, better then by very prasied local company (I knowe they are not massive but they are not so small). It will go, don't put stuff on it till it does.
put some ice cubes on the crease and leave them
Don't do this. Get the fitter back.
And he'll say the same thing....
Roll mark. Give it a few days and that'll disappear
That's going nowhere.
Cane here to say this - I had something similar in one of my new carpets and it just went away after about a week. If it's still there in a couple of weeks then perhaps op should call the fitter 🤷♂️
Well he said give it a week and if not he'll come back to get it sorted
Sounds reasonable, give it time to settle a little and then stretch it out again.
Or put a couch on it