Prevention Those Black Marks Around The Edge Of Carpets

by Ian Harper MBICSc

Are you unlucky and get those black marks around the edge of you carpets? Well help is at hand on how to prevent them. They can be one of two things causing this problem.

Air flow. This air flow can come from many different sources. The gap between the floor and maybe the wall. It depends on how your house is built or renovated.

Sealing these gaps will stop this. Use sealer around the baseboards and tape on the floor making sure that the tape is of the type that will stop air. Gaffer tape works great.

It’s now possible to get big rolls of card that is used under carpets for this problem. Lay this down tape joints and run tape around the baseboard. Job done.

Here are some way to deal with this problem.You can get rolls of card that carpet fitters use under foam back carpets. Lay this under the underlay and tape the joins. Then run tape around the gap under the skirting

Run sealer around the edge and fit hard board over the boards

You see, cleaning is not so easy after all it has a science just like everything else and by using this science is make a really hard job, and these black marks will be if not removed the right way, easy.

Next time you have any carpets fitted make sure that the carpet fitters lay your carpets to this high standard. You will need to tell them about the problem. And as you know what the cause is you can’t get ripped off.

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