I've had a carpet fitted 3 years and it keeps peeling back at the same place. The room isn't used very regularly so it's not through foot traffic. The fitters have been over twice to re-fit this edge but still peels back.
First time was fitted with double sided tape. Came up
Second time was re-fitted with spiky strip, and despite my explicit instruction NOT TO, they used nail-in spiky strip (told not to on account of wet UFH)
When I saw this recently and the nails have pulled out of the screed, I came over in a cold sweat. Fortunately, it still holds pressure so not pierced
Came back a third (and now final time) and used a little more adhesive, got rid of the strip etc
To my mind, the adhesive is always going to fail as the screed here, is friable and has fibres in to re-enforce for the UFH.
I now have to tackle this myself. I was going to use a bead of grip fill or pinkgrip and glue down the spikey strip (sans nails!). Once set, use a knee kicker to re-fit the carpet back upto the timber threashold board.
Is it good/okay practice to glue down the strip? I'm a little fearful it'll start to spall at the screed through the tension of the carpet.
Nozzle
First time was fitted with double sided tape. Came up
Second time was re-fitted with spiky strip, and despite my explicit instruction NOT TO, they used nail-in spiky strip (told not to on account of wet UFH)
When I saw this recently and the nails have pulled out of the screed, I came over in a cold sweat. Fortunately, it still holds pressure so not pierced
Came back a third (and now final time) and used a little more adhesive, got rid of the strip etc
To my mind, the adhesive is always going to fail as the screed here, is friable and has fibres in to re-enforce for the UFH.
I now have to tackle this myself. I was going to use a bead of grip fill or pinkgrip and glue down the spikey strip (sans nails!). Once set, use a knee kicker to re-fit the carpet back upto the timber threashold board.
Is it good/okay practice to glue down the strip? I'm a little fearful it'll start to spall at the screed through the tension of the carpet.
Nozzle
