new carpet has lumps and bumps all over it

[movingonup2015]

Hi All, looking for some advice.

I have just had a new carpet laid this morning - I had the carpet delivered to me a few days ago and we took it upstairs to make life a bit easier for the carpet fitter (and because I didn't trust them not to mark my walls in the process!)
Anyway to get the carpet up the stairs we had to poke it vertically through the attic. Once it was up in the attic my dad insisted we leave it there as the carpet fitters would need to put it back up there in order to manoeuvre it around into the bedroom.

In his infinite wisdom my dad insisted it would be fine to be left there for 3 days bent at an angle - I didn't know any better so left it.

Carpet fitter turned up, saw how it had been stored and said oh dear... laid it down and there was an almighty lump in the middle where it had been stored bent...

managed to get most of it to go down but there is still lumps and bumps all over the place - he said leave for 2 weeks as it should flatten by then and call him back out if it still hasn't gone down.

I'm really gutted I was hoping to get my bed delivered this weekend and start moving furniture in there but having to wait another 2 weeks is a huge let down

is there anything I can do to help it flatten down? whole carpet feels quite loose to walk on now and just looks bad. I don't think its the fitters fault - the other carpets I had a month ago were laid fine so its obviously just where its been stored.

underlay is cloud 9 11mm and carpet 7mm if that helps!

[wowfudge]

What is the carpet made of and can you post a picture? Very hard to gauge how bad it is from your post.

[movingonup2015]

its made from polypropelene, its really hard to see on a picture and only when you are literally on top of it that you can see how bad it is. might be because its a light carpet. I am not at the house at the moment - I took a pic earlier of the whole room you may or may not be able to see it but its in the middle of the room where its slightly darker - will try to post a better photo later....

[BSites]

Any chance that the bed will cover the biggest bumps?

[movingonup2015]

yes it should cover part of it but then im concerned it will bulge out of the end of the bed and of course that doesn't hide the rest of the bumps around the rest of the room.. plus the whole carpet is "loose" due to this big bump in the middle.

[wowfudge]

Hmm - wool and wool mix carpets are stretched during fitting so you would expect lumps and bumps to be smoothed during the fitting process. I don't know if the same thing holds true for synthetic ones.

Fwiw whenever we've had to store carpet we've put it either flat on the floor in the hall or up the stairs to one side.

[PigletJohn]

if you have an upright hoover, start in the middle of the room and push towards the edges. It will tend to push bubbles away.

[movingonup2015]

yeah ive always stored them flat in the past but dad insisted on keeping it shoved up in the attic and I wasn't strong enough to argue and move it myself lesson definitely learned!

PigletJohn will it still need restretching after I try hoovering?

[Nonnainglese]

I have a living room carpet ( mainly synthetic) that developed lumps and bumps after being laid. It been re-laid twice and is even worse now with a whopping great crease running down the length of the room. It came straight from the store, rolled up.
Am having to buy a new one. The company who supplied and laid it has gone bust

[PigletJohn]

It might need restretching, but let it relax as much as it will first. That will be what your fitter is thinking. Yes, be sure not to push any bubbles into a crease. The hoovering works better with ripples than with bubbles.

With a wool carpet you can sprinkle it with water to shrink bubbles, but I don't think that will work with polyropylene.

[Mydearchild]

We had the same problem with a wool carpet we had fitted 12 months ago - they dropped out within days, hopefully you'll find the same happens.