realclean
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Question A, anyway to tell before you clean if the carpet will get waves in it?
and B: anyway to prevent it from happing?
and B: anyway to prevent it from happing?
FYI on this job the carpet got the waves within 5 minutes of a very light prespray.
was this a rug or carpet?
After four hours call anotger friend.
And the client ALWAYS blames us!
I have a condo building with double stick glue down. The first five or six years it cleaned up beautifully. The last 2 times, several hallways are buckling. The second floor, which is a crossover floor and has more foot traffic is the worst. I have advised them that the installation is failing and they need to take some action.You can check the stretch on a carpet by going to the middle of the room and pulling up on an open area.
If you can pull up and down on it with not much force and it causes ripples (remember the parachute game in elementary gym class?) then the carpet will need a restretch regardless of what you do.
If you believe that pulling dirt out will help prolong the life of the carpet, the other side of that is maintaining a good even stretch. Wrinkles and poor seams will wear out 10x faster than anything else.
If you are finding wrinkles on a CGD it is either installer error (wrong trowel, wrong glue, wrong technique, didn't care etc...) or, an old hard set glue that has run its course and the rug should probably be taken up.
Has anyone knowingly cleaned a double stick glue down and if so how did it turn out?
...nothing but trouble. Asking a glue bonded surface to perform any longer than that atop a flexible piece of pad defies logic, especially in high traffic areas where some overzealous steamcleaner is going to eventually pull the thing apart like a grilled cheese sandoI have a condo building with double stick glue down. The first five or six years it cleaned up beautifully. The last 2 times, several hallways are buckling. The second floor, which is a crossover floor and has more foot traffic is the worst. I have advised them that the installation is failing and they need to take some action.