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cleaner taken thread out of carpet

178 replies

uptheauntie · 15/10/2014 17:49

one of our carpets is a little loose under the door bar/threshold thing. It is has been like that for a little while and needs pushed back under the threshold, which our builder is going to do (we have had a renovation done and it is on the snagging list).

I came home today and a thread about 50 cm long is gone from the edge of the carpet into the hallway. The carpet is thick thread, so it is really really noticeable. The carpet is ruined effectively and will need replaced.

The cleaner must have done it whilst hoovering over the threshold. Which I never do given it is a little loose (you can't fail to notice it is coming out from under the threshold). But she has failed to mention it to me!

I can see these things happen, I am not quite sure who is at fault here, but AIBU to think she should have at least mentioned it to me?

OP posts:
Bettercallsaul1 · 15/10/2014 22:07

Oh, very good, FDD!

BadtzMaru · 15/10/2014 22:09

I can't imagine someone hoovering up half a metre of carpet

It's easily done, I caught a corner of the rug in DD's room caught in the hoover and a thread came loose and got pulled into the hoover brushes, I had to hack at it with a stanley knife to disentangle it and rescue the hoover which had started to smell of burning. OP I would check your hoover brushes if it was your own hoover and not the cleaner's or it might burn the motor out next time you switch it on if it's still caught up in it.

thatwouldbeanecumenicalmatter · 15/10/2014 22:10

The OP is never going to get a sensible answer I'm afrayed.

Bettercallsaul1 · 15/10/2014 22:13
Grin
CedricBloomer · 15/10/2014 22:25

"Show us a photo OP...of the offending area which "needs replaced" and the carpet which "needs pushed back".

I find your use of "need" most upsetting. I suspect my pedantry over grammar is akin to your carpet pedantry."

Me too.

If you'd said your cleaner had vacuumed your entire life up the hoover, I'd still find in favour of her, based on "needs replaced."

BreadForBrains · 15/10/2014 22:59

Ffs, it's been a long day but posters who are baffled about a bald 50x50cm square of carpet has made my stomach hurt with guffawing Grin
Anyway, OP, will your carpet get replaced? Only twine will tell...

BreadForBrains · 15/10/2014 22:59

Grin haha ignore that, nothing to do with twine!
(At least I've made myself laugh)

Bettercallsaul1 · 15/10/2014 23:07

You can weave goodbye to any credibility with that comment, Bread.

BerylStreep · 15/10/2014 23:29

WTF is that scary mouse thing about?

BerylStreep · 15/10/2014 23:30

It's probably tuft luck in relation to the carpet.

YourKidsYourRulesHunXxx · 15/10/2014 23:36

People who say things like 'our builder' or 'my tailor' or 'my hairdresser' just grate on me.

Really sorry OP. I had to say it.

Bettercallsaul1 · 15/10/2014 23:37

I think we all failed to identify the underlaying problem here.

MammaTJ · 15/10/2014 23:37

'AIBU to think she should have at least mentioned it to me?' That is the question.

A/ You don't know she did it.

B/ Why had you not mentioned to her that it was going to be fixed eventually? She may have got fed up of trying to do a thorough job and it getting caught up in the vacuum cleaner, so cut it off.

OscarWinningActress · 15/10/2014 23:40

I did this to my own carpet once while hoovering. Our carpet installer came out and fixed it. I don't know what he did but it took two seconds and cost nothing. CALM DOWN.

optimistikcolouristik · 15/10/2014 23:41

50cm of thread not 50cm of carpet. No wonder OP doesn't answer. OP tell the cleaner about the thread but apologise for not warning her beforehand. Not everyone would be that smart to think about it beforehand. But nevertheless she should not have "swept the thread under the carpet". Do you think she might have not noticed it? Talk to her without confrontation otherwise you will never be able to trust her again.

Bettercallsaul1 · 15/10/2014 23:44

I think the OP has long since disappeared and left us all to amuse ourselves. Grin

Camolips · 16/10/2014 05:59

She's either gone for a shag or has a pile of ironing to do

CaspoFungin · 16/10/2014 06:55

Which thread should she tell her about, this one or the one from the carpet?

LuisSuarezTeeth · 16/10/2014 07:38

Thread deleted (by hoover) for breaking Talk Guidelines

The OP was trying to pull the wool over our eyes.

YeGodsAndLittleFishes · 16/10/2014 08:31

Lol, you spin a good yarn, Luis.

Chandon · 16/10/2014 08:48

The problem is with you having a cleaner and a builder.

It does not sit well with MNers.

This is a socialist site, most people would be on the side of your staff.

As you can see.

Lifesalemon · 16/10/2014 09:37

People are being quite rude now, maybe OP will get HQ to pull this thread.

YeGodsAndLittleFishes · 16/10/2014 09:38

Or cut it?

YeGodsAndLittleFishes · 16/10/2014 09:43

But there's a hole in my carpet, dear li-ife, dear li-ife. We are right back where this thread began.

There's an idea. OP could pull other threads out at even intervals, the same length, and make it look as if it's supposed to be like that! Grin

Lifesalemon · 16/10/2014 09:54

Great idea fishes
Or she could get the 'staff' to do it.