you guys will never know how much it winds me up to find a new post - only to find its one of you pair with a dodgy joke !! :lol: Only jesting of course ! Ray
They're not bothered once we've carpeted em unless the winders start creekin ,,, Just cheap staircases , skirtings the same pops @ top cos its pinned !
if they took the plaster board down to the floor it would stop popping skirtings also. How come us fitters have to work around all the other trades problems! Shall i mention the silicon around the edge of rooms in new builds?
it drives you mad when other trades do shoddy jobs, we do the slightest thing wrong and we get the book thrown at us
Went back to a job I fitted 6 months ago ( barrats ) customer was complaining of gaps in between carpet and skirting , also that she could feel the pins in gripper on stairs !! And you could of knocked me down with a feather ... The walls had only SHRUNK back from the carpets , you could see where the paint line was on the floor where skirting had previously been also the silicone was still stuck to the floor a quater of an inch away skirting now Stairs were so loose I could push them back and forth to expose the gripper , and I had stapled the gripper to the stairs ... Cowboys Customer was not happy .think she thought I was pulling her leg about the shrinkage , that is the only time I've ever been glad to see that silicone I can tell you John
Hi mate i was allways told to draw a pen line round the skirting boards of a new build and tell the customer why. had loads of crap from builders but atleast they get the blame
yes this is correct. Always draw a line and take a picture but get something in the back ground so you can prove the picture was taken in the same property. We teach this on courses and people think im mad ! Its a simple 2 minute thing that can protect you from replacing the carpets etc Again people who have been on our courses now understand and can check before hand if a property is going to 'shrink' . This all comes back to knowing how to check moister in property's (yes wooden floors as well as concrete) so you know if there will be a issue before you install.
The problem with rooms "shrinking" isn't really a major problem. A few years ago I was regularly fitting carpets in about 5 or 6 new builds a week for Ben Bailey Homes and this problem occurred about 6 times a month on average. As you said, the white gloss paint line on the floor gives you your answer. When the house was being built, the chances are that the chipboard floor got wet due to rain or snow. Once the roof goes on and the central heating kicks in, the floor, which in most cases nowadays are a "floating" floor not fastened to all of the joists, will contract or shrink due to the change in humidity. If the carpet has been fitted correctly then this should not matter, the skirting boards have not moved. When you get the call back, just uplift the gripper and reposition it to the correct place then just stretch the carpet back on the grippers and job done. The size of the room has not changed, only the actual chipboard flooring under the carpet and underlay.
