Hi all, just a quick question.
We've recently decorated the stairs & landing and our master bedroom.
We took up all the carpets and slung the bedroom carpet but kept the stairs and landing as this is only 18 months old and is a "good" quality berber-type carpet which we got from the wife's parents.
When the fitter came to fit the new bedroom carpet we asked if he would re-fit the stairs carpet.
We got home to find that on the last riser (at the bottom of the stairs), the carpet was approx 2 inches short of the floor.
When I rang to find out what was going on I was told "well the problem with some carpets when you take them up is that they can shrink and they can't always be fitted exactly how they were."
I've never heard of this in my life but the guy was adamant so my question is can anyone else back this theory or shoot it to pieces??
I can appreciate a fibre material such as carpet is susceptible to water, but the thing's been rolled up in our spare room for the last 4 weeks, not in the canal.
We've recently decorated the stairs & landing and our master bedroom.
We took up all the carpets and slung the bedroom carpet but kept the stairs and landing as this is only 18 months old and is a "good" quality berber-type carpet which we got from the wife's parents.
When the fitter came to fit the new bedroom carpet we asked if he would re-fit the stairs carpet.
We got home to find that on the last riser (at the bottom of the stairs), the carpet was approx 2 inches short of the floor.
When I rang to find out what was going on I was told "well the problem with some carpets when you take them up is that they can shrink and they can't always be fitted exactly how they were."
I've never heard of this in my life but the guy was adamant so my question is can anyone else back this theory or shoot it to pieces??
I can appreciate a fibre material such as carpet is susceptible to water, but the thing's been rolled up in our spare room for the last 4 weeks, not in the canal.
