Does Your Carpet Need Stretching or Repair?
Wrinkles, waves, loose carpet, burns, seams, and damaged areas may be repairable before you replace the whole room.
Carpet problems can look serious at first glance, but not every issue means the carpet needs to be replaced. Wrinkles and waves often point to loose carpet that may need stretching. Burns, holes, torn seams, and bleached spots may need a different kind of repair. The key is identifying whether the problem is tension, damage, moisture, age, or wear.
There are many causes for “waves” and wrinkles in carpeting. The most common reason a carpet will develop wrinkles is poor installation. Many carpet installers arepaid by the yard. The faster they work, the more money they can make per hour. Unfortunately, this is not always conducive to a quality installation job. One of the most common shortcuts is to use just a knee kicker instead of a power stretcher to tighten the carpet against the wall. Not even a 300-pound ex-football player can put enough force behind a knee kicker to properly tighten a new carpet. The resulting wrinkles in a carpet usually don’t show up for at least a year or more… long after the installer is gone.
Other causes of premature wrinkling are over-wetting from poor carpet cleaning or flooding, dragging heavy furniture across the carpet and old age. Read a more comprehensive article about the issue of wrinkles in a carpet. If you are dealing with holes, burns, or torn areas, see our guide to carpet repair services for holes, rips, and burns. For a complete overview, start with our Carpet Repair, Stretching, and Replacement Guide.
Other than carpet stretching, Angelo’s Cleaning can also perform color repairs for bleached spots, seam repairs, burn repairs, and patches/inserts.
Visit our carpet repair service page for more information, pricing, ordering services and scheduling. If the damage may be too extensive to repair, read about when it is time to replace carpet. You can also call our office today at (610) 935-7557 or (610) 436-6666.
