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Carpet wrinkles are due to improper installs and this is why you need a San Diego Carpet Stretch

It’s very typical today for carpet wrinkles and the need for San Diego carpet stretching & repair|quality service. Installers today all too many times fail to install carpet with a required power stretcher or to required standards. It’s a severe lack of quality.

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Miracle Services Inc

Loose carpet is a bad thing.

It results in premature wear of both the carpet and the backing, it also causes carpet delamination, wrinkles, bubbles and buckling that gets worse every year. It can create trip hazards in extreme cases and the prevention of doors opening or closing, this too will wear your carpet. These require carpet stretching & repairs. Stairs eventually come off tack trips and steps can actually give way while your going down. This is why the Carpet has to be replaced if found within the 1 year carpet install warranty. It is considered damaged goods if not powerstretched, end of story as far as your warranty is concerned.

Carpet warranty & claims

If you need to call in a claim on your 25 year carpet manufacturers warranty too bad, its void if the carpet is loose and was not power stretched or seams We’re not sealed. When you make a claim for a carpet defect such as 2 different colors, roll crush, fiber distortion or anything else, they will inspect for a proper install to standards. We find most carpets we come into clean or repair with no seam adhesive or not power stretched but loose.

2 different colors

Fiber Distortion, see the lines

Loose carpet damage

The latex and polyester backing breaks down while the loose, buckled areas get walked on which is why it is required to be replaced. The carpet backing which is just polyester mesh coated with latex is the carpet foundation. The wrinkles crack andcthe latex pulverizes. Once this happens the secondary and primary backing is just polyester mesh which peels away from the carpet. This is why it’s now “damaged goods”. Yes, if the 1 year install warranty is out of periodicity we can fix it.

This is why we spend extra time during a carpet cleaning to get a room tight before we clean it. We could be a typical carpet cleaning service that has forgotten how to care for your carpet but for us it just doesn’t make sence to clean over damaged carpet unless that is your wish. Our included pre-clean inspection is so that you know the situation of your carpet, to make a claim, have us fix it and to protect us from taking the liability of carpet damage caused by a lack of an install. When I say that it is because it was just cut out and laid in, never installed.

Carpet Seams

Many times a carpet seam runs across a large room like the 1st picture above. It looks like a wrinkle but it’s not. It is called “seam peaking” and is considered acceptable but I greatly disagree. There is a special tool and procedure to avoid this and we use it. If the two seams are seamed together by seam tape underneath only then nothing prevents the 2 edges from peaking up and you can see the opening as in the 2nd picture. If the edges were bonded/welded together with a special adhesive this would not happen. Now, besides all of that the two cut seams require to be sealed along the edges with latex. This is to prevent the fibers or yarns from coming out of those cuts where the latex was compromised. If not sealed with latex to reinstate the backing then yarns will come loose and start to show in the seam from vacuuming and foot traffic. This will void your warranty. The above seam in the 2nd picture is an older berber that has held perfect due to the seam edges being properly sealed with latex.

New Carpet Install? Call us for an independent inspection

If you’re getting new carpet installed you need to know that power stretching is mandatory. Below is a power stretcher that we use to do what your installer did not:

Too often an installer will just use a knee kicker to stretch & install your carpet and this is 100% unacceptable! Below is a knee kicker we use as an assist tool to hold carpet in position:

Next time you call a San Diego carpet cleaner make sure they know thier trade and can address any carpet issues. Your carpet cleaner should be qualified to do a simple install and damage inspection for you. The most important is carpet integrity. Is it secured to all tack strips especially at carpet to hard floor transitions. The carpet should be tight in all rooms otherwise a heavy rotary extractor should never be used. If it is loose the Carpet will buckle after cleaning. Black light of carpet seams is very important because this is another issue that will void your 25 year warranty. 95% of the time seams do not get the mandatory seam sealer.

Call us if you are considering carpet replacement, we’ll send you to a carpet distributor that has it’s own installers rather than subcontracted to the lowest bidder.

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