Mess left by carpet fitters. Advice please?

YoungBlueEyes

No Bendy you swine, she’s 80 in January and she’s lovely! 

badmemory

I used my largest offcut to carpet the porch, kept it much warmer than the tiles already in there.

YoungBlueEyes

My next door neighbour didn’t get any off cuts left so she’s had a load of mine. She used the same company too, she was the other one that recommended them! 

Bendy_House

YoungBlueEyes said:

No Bendy you swine, she’s 80 in January and she’s lovely! 

80? Pah - she wouldn't notice...

Ectophile

There are companies that can bind the edges of an offcut of carpet.  I have one as a doormat.

I had a couple of bigger bits as rugs, but they crease too easily, and once the backing fabric is creased it can't be un-creased.

Silvertabby

Our carpet fitters removed all the scraps, just leaving us with some neat off-cuts, and hoovered each room.

I wouldn't have been happy with that mess. 

youth_leader

Advertise it on freecycle, some people use carpet on their allotments?  Also can line your boot, dog cage, rabbit hutch .... 

youth_leader

I'm not sure about this, but I thought you had to leave new carpets to 'settle' before you vacuum?

YoungBlueEyes

I did think that too @youth_leader, but I don't know where I got it from.  24 hours to let the spray set.  Too late now like.

I wonder if that's what's the matter with the carpet in the spare room? Not enough spray glue on it to attach it to the floor. Assuming the spray is glue...?

YoungBlueEyes

I'll mention it when I go back into the shop today.  Himself was......unhappy...... when he got home last night. I didn't even notice this but he spotted it straight away - they didn't mould the carpet round the lip of each stair, they just laid it across and down and across and down itms? We'll see what they say. 

The bits my neighbours didn't want I left in a box outside with a sign saying "free if you want some", and this morning it 's all gone. One man's junk...