Browse Forums Flooring & Floor Covering Re: Carpet just laid and doesn't look good 7Jun 02, 2010 7:49 pm I was at Bunnings today and had a look at the timber mouldings. They have a square dressed oak moulding, 6mm x 6mm. Its fairly inexpensive. having this glued up to the edge of the smoothedge would provide a solution. But the carpets will need to be lifted, mouldings fitted and glue (liquid nails) allowed to dry, and the carpets refitted. If you want this done, you would probably need to cover costs of materials, but they should do the carpet lifting and refitting. The sales guy will tend to defend himself with those kind of comments (make the customer the problem ). He seems to assume everybody will accept work that is not done to Aust Standards. If its a property you are selling, it may not be a big enough issue to pursue, but if you want it fixed, I feel they should meet you half way and sort it out. Materials would be around $30 for an average room. Ash. Re: Carpet just laid and doesn't look good 8Jun 02, 2010 8:55 pm Personally, if it were me, I wouldn't stress about it. Re: Carpet just laid and doesn't look good 9Jun 03, 2010 7:50 pm The carpet guy has now had the layer back and they have pulled up the edges of the carpet and extended the smoothedge. It looks 100% on what it did. I am happy to pay him extra for having done this, and I guess we have both learned something. Thanks to everyone for their advice - it was really helpful. Re: Carpet just laid and doesn't look good 10Jun 05, 2010 11:33 am jassy The carpet guy has now had the layer back and they have pulled up the edges of the carpet and extended the smoothedge. It looks 100% on what it did. I am happy to pay him extra for having done this, and I guess we have both learned something. Thanks to everyone for their advice - it was really helpful. Thats a good outcome Jassy. Hopefully this means the carpet store will be more attentive to such details in the future, so not only have you asserted your own consumer rights, but actually done them and their future customers a service too! Ash. Re: Carpet just laid and doesn't look good 12Jun 05, 2010 6:49 pm jassy The carpet guy has now had the layer back and they have pulled up the edges of the carpet and extended the smoothedge. It looks 100% on what it did. I am happy to pay him extra for having done this, and I guess we have both learned something. Thanks to everyone for their advice - it was really helpful. I personally think that you should not have had to pay for the fix-up. New smoothedge would have already been costed into the job. BUT a 5-6mm gap from smoothedge to wall is normal. The new carpet must be very thin for the gap to be extremely noticable. Thank you. Do I use timber floorboards for stairs or do people use timber treads? Or is both the same? 6 7258 I had new concrete laid, extended the alfresco and had the sidewalks concreted too. I noticed the concreter didn't put the expansion foam anywhere, there are expansion… 0 8109 No the fireplace doesn’t work. It’s been enclosed. I’m not sure what was removed, as it was done quite some time ago - well before what I can see with photos online… 2 11569 |