Browse Forums Flooring & Floor Covering 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 7726 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 8244 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 11833 |