New carpet and low internal doors advice please

sparkiemalarkie

Hi we have just had new carpet fitted and unfortunately we were talked into the 'best quality' underlay.


Some of our internal doors are now catching on the carpet.
When is the best time to plane the doors?
Do we wait for the carpet to settle or do we do it sooner rather than later?


thanks


sparkie

tanith

The people who laid the carpets should of asked if you wanted the doors adjusted thats what happened when I had carpets laid..

sparkiemalarkie

tanith wrote: »

The people who laid the carpets should of asked if you wanted the doors adjusted thats what happened when I had carpets laid..

Thanks... they didn't


The doors do open but they drag the top of the carpet and I am concerned that we will get an arc of wear

We even had a home visit from Carpetright and was 'up sold' the underlay as we had 'plenty of door clearance' !
It's my fault for believing the sales man and being swayed from my original choice of underlay.
I wanted the carpet to go in with no additional drama....

I might go back to carpetright to see what they say

sparkie

Ebe_Scrooge

Don't get too het up over it. It's actually good to have a better quality of underlay - it's more comfortable, and protects the carpet, meaning it'll last longer. It's not difficult to trim the door - very easy if you've got any DIY experience, or a simple job for a general handyman.

Chunks

I would adjust the doors now. Depending on how 'tight' the doors are over the carpet, leaving as is, will likely accelerate the wear as you mentioned.

I pushed the boat out for thicker underlay when I had some quality carpet laid (some doors were catching). Trimmed them and jobs a good un, then and still (three years on).

Chunks

PS. The underlay was were the profit margin was in my case. At the time, I picked out a lovely wool mix carpet at a very attractive price. The carpet salesman move in and waxed lyrical about my excellent taste (blah blah). He wasn't so gushing when I mentioned that I had seen some quality underlay on the net and only wanted the carpet!

Le_Kirk

Vote for doors off, plane bottom (do not saw) and back on again else you will forever have an arc of wear. Sometimes, if you are lucky, you can push a wedge under the door, undo the hinge screws and you might get a bit of lift, push the wedge in a bit more, then retighten the screws. If not ............... at least you will have loosened the screws!

sparkiemalarkie

I went back to carpetright this afternoon ( I had a deposit to get a refund on) so thought I would mention how the fitting went yesterday. I calmly and politely mentioned the following

The newly painted front door was scuffed so badly that it has, in a couple of places, taken the paint off right down to the wood.

The carpet has been forced too hard against the under stairs cupboard that the ply has dislodged and split.

There are 2 faults in the carpet 2 lines from one side of the hall to the other

and 4 of our doors won't open and shut properly.

The manager was very sweet, he listened an ooo'd and ahh 'd in the right places. Offered to put things right but mentioned long waiting times, inconvenience of waiting in for tradesmen etc..... suggested that they could all be put right by us with minimum disruption.....

He pointed out that the underlay we originally chose was only 1mm smaller that the one we had installed so, we would have had to alter the doors anyway. He agreed that the salesman should have mentioned the doors during the home visit so we wouldn't have had such a surprise/disappointment.
He pointed out that the superior quality will make the effort worthwhile.
I was also to let him know if the faults- pole lines? - haven't disappeared in 3 weeks.

I left the shop completely in awe of his diplomatic skills. I wasn't at any time ranting or raving but I left the store with a 'new best friend' !!!

So I need to brush up my painting and planning skills to put things back to how they should be..

sparkie

photome

sparkiemalarkie wrote: »

I went back to carpetright this afternoon ( I had a deposit to get a refund on) so thought I would mention how the fitting went yesterday. I calmly and politely mentioned the following

The newly painted front door was scuffed so badly that it has, in a couple of places, taken the paint off right down to the wood.

The carpet has been forced too hard against the under stairs cupboard that the ply has dislodged and split.

There are 2 faults in the carpet 2 lines from one side of the hall to the other

and 4 of our doors won't open and shut properly.

The manager was very sweet, he listened an ooo'd and ahh 'd in the right places. Offered to put things right but mentioned long waiting times, inconvenience of waiting in for tradesmen etc..... suggested that they could all be put right by us with minimum disruption.....

He pointed out that the underlay we originally chose was only 1mm smaller that the one we had installed so, we would have had to alter the doors anyway. He agreed that the salesman should have mentioned the doors during the home visit so we wouldn't have had such a surprise/disappointment.
He pointed out that the superior quality will make the effort worthwhile.
I was also to let him know if the faults- pole lines? - haven't disappeared in 3 weeks.

I left the shop completely in awe of his diplomatic skills. I wasn't at any time ranting or raving but I left the store with a 'new best friend' !!!

So I need to brush up my painting and planning skills to put things back to how they should be..

sparkie

Cut a long story short

He sweet talked you in to "its not really our fault but we may be able to put it right if you wait ages and it would be better if you just fix it yourself"

Great service.

sparkiemalarkie

photome wrote: »

Cut a long story short

He sweet talked you in to "its not really our fault but we may be able to put it right if you wait ages and it would be better if you just fix it yourself"

Great service.

Yep, you're completely right.