Rant: The hotel lobby carpet in that new place on Main Street is already buckling.

I was at the Grandview Inn for a job quote last Thursday and saw their main lobby carpet, installed maybe six months ago, pulling away from the baseboards near the main entrance. It looks like they didn't use a power stretcher at all, just a knee kicker. Has anyone else run into a job where the previous installer clearly cut corners on the stretch?

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davis.ruby21d ago

Buckling after six months is definitely not great, but sometimes high traffic areas just take a beating. Could be a bad stretch, but maybe the pad underneath gave out or there's a moisture issue. Seen worse jobs hold up and better ones fail.

rodriguez.felix21d ago

But what if it was just a bad install?

the_oscar16d ago

How can you rule out the install so fast? I've seen too many jobs where the crew rushed the stretch or didn't lock the seams right. That pad doesn't just give out on its own in half a year unless water is pouring in. A bad stretch shows up as ripples almost right away, and that's pure technique. We might be letting the installer off the hook too easily here.