Does anybody remove carpets then re fit rather than sheeting up?

[jasjas17]

When doing dusty or messy building work or rip outs in nice decorated customers homes does anybody actually remove carpets and then re fit them when finished rather than sheeting up?

We mainly put sheets down and also sticky floor protector and sometimes hardboard.

Im thinking by the time all the prep work has been done of sheeting and protecting it and keeping ontop of it, with sometimes taking the sheets up and down every morning and night that it might actually be easier to just remove the carpets and get them refitted at the end of the job.

Does anybody actually do this on a regular basis?

 

[footprints]

I would think there would be a problem if the customer is living there, imagine customers or kids stepping on exposed gripper rod or getting splinters off the floorboards!
Storing the carpet will be a pain too.

 

[jasjas17]

True....cant win either way can you.

 

[noseall]

We inform customers to grit their teeth for a couple of days (when doing knock-through work) and dust sheet up only. We try and be a swift as possible whilst making sure all the dusty stuff is completed, in the first phase. Doing things like electrical/plumbing chases, trimming up plaster edges, ripping down spoiled bits of ceiling etc, during the initial dusty stages, means all the dust is inflicted in one hit.

 

[stuart45]

Used to work for a firm years ago where the Painting foreman used to go in first and sheet out the rooms tacking down the sheets using battens at the edges. He was so good at getting a good fit it was like another carpet on top. Even the stairs were so good you could run up and down no problem.