I need help. I have rugs on carpet. You know how carpet has a nap? Well, over time as I walk on the rugs, the nap of the carpet has the rugs creeping every so gradually across the rooms. And where there’s a furniture leg on a rug, that stops the creep, so I get these goofy little pile ups of rug next to the legs, and crooked rug edges. This is making me insane. Has anyone got a solution?
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
~William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, 1595
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You could put one of those rubber pad thingies under the rug pieces.
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Yup, I know what you mean.
I used wide double stick tape.
But when you stick it.....get right the first time.
I got a sticky pad at Home Depot...slightly different than the non-stick pads you use under an area rug on a slick surface...and my area rug now stays put to the carpet underneath!
Not to be negative, I've always heard a rug has to breathe and by putting another rug on top can cause problems to the existing one.
Also, if you have older relatives, living or visiting your home, it's an ideal place for them to trip and fall.
I hadn't heard that it's detrimental although it makes sense--sort of like the "bras" people put on the nose of their cars. If there's dirt underneath, I can imagine it would cause problems. I use rug-over-rug to protect an area from getting anymore trashed that it already is.
I hadn't heard that about no rug over rug either, but my landlord's carpet is so gruesome, I'm sure I'm doing it a favor if I am putting it out of its misery.
I got one of the sticky pads at Home Creepo today, and I'll give that a try. Thanks, all."Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."~William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night's Dream, 1595
Update..........sticky rug pad for carpet to carpet application from Home Depot has done the trick very nicely. Bear to unroll and position the stuff, but it works. And the long scraps I had even worked nicely put under the outer margins of my very largest rug, without buying a full size sticky for it! Thanks!"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."~William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night's Dream, 1595
Thanks for the update. I will look for it, when I buy a rug...lol....Come what mayyyyyy........