New Carpet – Slippy Mat

[johnbarry]

I had a new living room carpet, for some reason my exsiting mats keep moving. I even purchased a non slip door mat, that slips.

I tried to make a mat out the left over (new) carpet, that slips.

I have never had this before (it’s been about 14 years since I had a new one) is this what you get today.

All I know is that it is a carpet, and underlay.

Cheers
John

[JayCeeDee]

I use THIS for a lot of things – under my mouse mat to stop it sliding on the desk, on the car’s dash ‘shelf”, in the cubby holes to stop coins sliding, it’s brilliant.

It should also be good for it’s original purpose to stop mats sliding on wood floors or carpets!!??

[johnbarry]

Thanks JayCee

I got me some of that, with a few purposes in mind (as well as the carpet).

Cheers
John

[Bob Williams]

JayCeeDee wrote:

I use THIS for a lot of things – under my mouse mat to stop it sliding on the desk, on the car’s dash ‘shelf”, in the cubby holes to stop coins sliding, it’s brilliant. It should also be good for it’s original purpose to stop mats sliding on wood floors or carpets!!

Me too JayCeeDee! Great stuff, keeps kitchen carpet in place on tiled floor, keeps my Parking change from rolling about in the dash cubbyhole, keeps stuff in drawers and toolboxes in place. I love it, just easily cut to fit anywhere you need it.

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[Dave Rice]

I use the same (cut in strips) to stop a rug moving on the laminate floor. It’s so good you have to get the rug in the right place as you can’t move it even slightly once down. Of course the rug when you want it to, it just lifts up as nothing is stuck to anything.

[johnbarry]

Interesting it sounds promising.

Dave n Bob from what you say, you only need strips under a mat (not fully cover the area)? on a carpet.

Cheers
John

[Dave Rice]

Yes, I have a 3 inch strip at either end of a 5′ by 4′ rug and we walk normally over it.

[The Duke]

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[Bob Williams]

johnbarry wrote:

Interesting it sounds promising. Dave n Bob from what you say, you only need strips under a mat (not fully cover the area)? on a carpet.

Yes John, strips are good enough. I have a kitchen Runner rug on a tiled floor. I just cut 4x triangular shapes out and put them under each corner. On a slippery floor, it seems to do the job better.

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[johnbarry]

Nice one Dave & Bob I will experiment.

Whoever said you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, you learn somet new every day.

Cheers
John

[johnbarry]

This arrived today, I put some down in strips and placed down the front door mat, I placed bigger strips under the large living room rug.

They still move, the front door mat is, itself a non slip mat.

I searched the internet most common avice is underlay (like above link) some say glue it (no ta) some say pin it (no ta)

You can get double sided carpet tape then there is these but you need to stick it to the carpet. However I need to get the mats up (at times) will the sticky stick that much it takes off the pile?. I  can’t see a purpose of a mat if it’s fixed I may aswell just use the fixed carpet.

It’s said that it’s the pile that moves, taking the carpet with it.

Thinking about the Anti Non Slip Mat Grip (I now have) I purchased a mat for under the computer desk, I fear that’s going to slip away.

It’s doing my head in, please help with a perfet solution.

Cheers
John

[dwynnehugh]

Hi John,

My elderly mother has the carpet gripper things – totally B useless – save your cash for rubber matting.

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[johnbarry]

Thanks Dave I will skip them then.

Cheers
John

[Ed P]

I don’t know about carpet, but these work for pictures and remove very cleanly if required.

They work by sticking one pad to one surface and the other to the object to be fixed. They work by a velcro-type pad on each sticky.

They say for ‘smooth surfaces’ so I would permanently glue one side of the pad to the carpet using fabric glue or similar. The floor side would stick with no probs but still remove cleanly.

[johnbarry]

Thanks Ed I will try them.

Cheers
John

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