What's wrong with carpet?

[veedee]

Just had some carpet installed and in one room the carpet is has slight elevation in the middle of the carpet.

During install the carpet fitter said that the carpet would settle on its own..

Does it need restreching?

Also of note is that during install the carpet fitter showed me a small part of the carpet which had detached from the hessian backing. But they said that they did not use the defective parts for the fitting

 

[Old Salt]

Mine was similar and yes it did settle but I suppose it depends how bad it is.

 

[Fred Blogs]

We have noticed that our carpet has developed a couple of raised areas. Our carpet has been down for two years and this only occured during the hot weather. My missus googled it and it seems that humidity can cause this which could be the case as it was very humid for a couple of days here and now things have cooled down the carpet is back to normal. I did lift one corner where one of the raised areas was to try to stretch it bit it didn't make any difference.

 

[crazydaze]

If the ripples are folds from where the carpet has been handled etc, these should drop out on their own.

Re-stretching would be best tried a couple of weeks after installation to allow the carpet to settle.

If the backing has de-laminated as suggested, it may be possible to glue the carpet to the underlay in this area with something like F-Ball F3 adhesive trowled in place, heavy duty spray may work, depending how penetrable the backing is BUT replacement should be offered on a new delaminating carpet. It's easy to check, when they lift the carpet in that area, the backing will be loose.