Dont buy thin carpet in future especially from carpetright.
Can feel gripper through carpet.
The installers should have lightly flattened the spikes enough so you don t hurt your feet but not too much that they won t hold onto the carpet.
Make sure your new carpet has a thick felt backing.
Medium is ok for 90 of carpets dont let them bash the pins down as that will lock the carpet on to them.
It was quite painful.
It doesn t make sense to buy an.
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You say that you can t feel any.
If you can feel the pins through the carpet it shouldn t be stretched in.
Yes they have used the wrong gripperrods you can get short medium and long pin gripper.
They should have warned you beforehand.
Does anyone have any advice about how to manage the spikes protuding through.
Shell busey shows you how to screw through carpeted floor.
These are usually the cheapest carpets funny enough.
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.
Commercial carpet is supposed to be glued down.
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.
It is all down to length of spikes and thickness of carpet.
The carpet gripper comes with different length spikes but the normal stuff is classed as medium as shown here.
Hello my newly installed carpet has lots of spikes aka carpet grippers which can be felt along the perimeter.
You chose the wrong carpet.
Carpet gripper problem post by markus67 tue aug 02 2011 8 07 am.
I m sorry you didn t chose the.
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