Unwanted Carpet Ripples

Carpet Ripples – It’s not that uncommon to show a home where the carpeting has ripples in several rooms of the home. It catches the buyers’ attention immediately when they walk into the room, you can’t miss the ripples in the carpet. It raises a red flag that the home hasn’t been maintained.

What causes these ripples? A bad installation of the carpeting by the carpet installers is the problem. The bad news is that the carpet ripples may not show up when the carpeting is first installed. The ripples may not show up for a couple of months after the carpet is in place. Then, it’s a little awkward to follow up with the carpet company to complain about the eye sore in the carpet.

I recently listed a home where the carpet had ripples in it. There were several rooms in the home that had the bulges in the carpet. The seller was worried that I was going to recommend a costly replacement of the carpet. Since the home was vacant, the carpet ripples were the first thing you noticed when you walked into the home. Instead, I recommended that we first try getting the carpet re-stretched by a carpet professional.

This is a process that I only recommend be done by a professional, it is not a do-it-yourself project. I think you could do more damage to the carpet than repair if you even attempted to try it yourself.

The name of the local company that we used for this home was Pro Carpet out of Marietta for this re-stretching. Their phone number is (770) 993-8007, and the Carpet Technician’s name that was sent out was Solomon Ikekhua. He did the re-stretching and the carpet cleaning on the same day. I highly recommend him. It was a great investment, and the owner was happy that she wasn’t going to invest several thousand dollars of new carpet.