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I think talking about how grippers should be fixed is interesting But you have shrunk the carpet if you are lucky a fitter might be able to re fit after it has relaxed other wise you have bought it Hope you are Insured!!!

Regards Tony

But surely if you do your checks to make sure that grippers are in place, at what point are you expected to be an expert on glue strength, and what tests do you carry out to ensure it can withstand the pulling power of x/sqm of wetted BW?
We all know wetted BW goes tight but we do expect a professionally fitted gripper to do it's job.... within limits ie not soaking the living daylights out of it.

Kinver_Clean

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The insurance may well pay out and then come after you for recompense.
God must love stupid people---He made so many.

Tony Gill Carpet Smart

  • Posts: 1254
Spot on Neil.

Tony
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Susan Dean (1stclean)

  • Posts: 2064
Because for insurance to pay out you would have had to take every procaution necessary to ensure the job is completed in a safe manner. Doesn't sound as if that happened so insurance company might have a get out!

well if thats the case then write a check out and pay for it yourself ,

the customer must come frist and carpet should be replaced with in three days max

a true expert would have it sorted , the only time we ever shrunk a carpet was 10 years ago in a hotel  i had it ripped up and a brand new f/dinner layed the very next day

  to keep things right i relayed the h.s.l as well all   ( four landings and four sets of stairs)  ;D ;D not bad for a cheap cowboy firm i run cost me 2k (trade) but the tax man payed me it back at the end of the year  :P

Craigp

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I think your forgetting carpet grippers are not there to prevent shrinkage. That is not there purpose.

So how they are fixed is irrelevant, they was doing there job just fine till you came along, lol.

tony bish

  • Posts: 165
Very good post Craig ,says it all really

neil kellett

  • Posts: 90
I was a fitter for years and it took me a good while to get the hang of a hammer on a concrete floor. Its completely different to laying smooth edge on a bedroom floor.  Fitters dont have the luxury of sticking or 'gunking' blobs of adhesive in order to adhere it. It takes 24 hours to set any way so it would only be done in extreme cases where a floor was really bad. 
Vilyetyet' c paboti mozhna v dva c4yota!
One can lose a job in the blink of an eye!

tony bish

  • Posts: 165
Hey Neil when we used to use PA5 mixture it would go off in 20-30 mins mate ,but now everyone uses gripperfix which takes slightly longer and is not as good ,but know where you are coming from you should really leave it for a lot longer .I think they have outlawed PA5 now because of the fumes but was incredible stuff .PS if any fitters still use it let me know where you can purchase it ,have looked everywhere .