Make sure your new carpet has a thick felt backing.
Can feel gripper through carpet.
These are usually the cheapest carpets funny enough.
Commercial carpet is supposed to be glued down.
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It is all down to length of spikes and thickness of carpet.
Dont buy thin carpet in future especially from carpetright.
Medium is ok for 90 of carpets dont let them bash the pins down as that will lock the carpet on to them.
It doesn t make sense to buy an.
It was quite painful.
The carpet gripper comes with different length spikes but the normal stuff is classed as medium as shown here.
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.
Hello my newly installed carpet has lots of spikes aka carpet grippers which can be felt along the perimeter.
Yes they have used the wrong gripperrods you can get short medium and long pin gripper.
You chose the wrong carpet.
If you can feel the pins through the carpet it shouldn t be stretched in.
Shell busey shows you how to screw through carpeted floor.
I m sorry you didn t chose the.
You say that you can t feel any.
They should have warned you beforehand.
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 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.
Does anyone have any advice about how to manage the spikes protuding through.
Carpet gripper problem post by markus67 tue aug 02 2011 8 07 am.
I cut my foot the other day accidentally when my foot moved near the skirting board.