Five Star Carpet Service re-stretches rippled and loose carpet in Furlong and nearby Buckingham and Warwick townships. Big rooms, finished basements and bonus rooms over the garage are most of what we do here. Stretching comes with a 5-year warranty, and the estimate is free.
Why is the carpet in my newer house already rippling?
Because big rooms are the hardest to install tight. A lot of homes around Furlong have open family rooms, great rooms and finished basements with one large piece of wall-to-wall carpet. On a job like that, an installer working fast may use a knee kicker instead of a power stretcher. The carpet looks fine on move-in day, then loosens over the first few years as people walk on it, the house goes through a few humid summers and furniture gets moved around. Ripples in a house that’s only five or ten years old are very common, and it’s rarely a sign of bad carpet.
How do you stretch a large room?
With a power stretcher and extension poles. The stretcher’s head grips the carpet near one wall, the poles brace against the opposite wall, and the lever pulls the carpet tight across the whole span. In a large room we stretch in more than one direction so the carpet sits flat from corner to corner, not just tight in one line. Then it’s re-hooked onto the tack strip and the edges are tucked under the baseboard.
A typical room takes an hour or two. Very large rooms and rooms full of furniture take longer.
What about the basement?
Basement carpet loosens for its own reasons. It’s often installed over concrete, the air is damper, and humidity relaxes the backing. Before we stretch a basement, we check that the floor isn’t wet and that the padding hasn’t broken down. If the padding is crumbling or smells musty, it should be replaced first, otherwise the carpet will loosen again. Running a dehumidifier in summer helps a stretched basement stay flat.
Bonus rooms and second floors
The room over the garage gets hotter and colder than the rest of the house, and that swing works carpet loose too. Same fix: release, power stretch, re-secure. We bring the tools up the stairs by hand, so a second floor or third floor is no problem.
What does the 5-year warranty mean?
If carpet we stretched starts to ripple again within 5 years, we come back and fix it.
Other work while we’re there
- Carpet cleaning after the stretch, so the room looks fresh too
- Seam repair where two pieces of carpet meet in a large room
- Patching burns or pet damage, plus pet odor treatment if the padding smells
- Stair carpet that has come loose at the nose of the step
Get a free estimate in Furlong
Call 267-838-5975 or book online. Our Furlong page has everything else we do in the area.
