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I recently moved into an apartment that has new carpet. Everytime I vaccuum or sweep the carpet all the fuzzys come off of it. I mean MAJOR fuzz. Enough to fill a Walmart bag from just the livingroom and diningroom. It fills the bag on my vaccuum so quickly and it stops up my vaccuum every time I vaccuum. Is this cheap carpet or is it just because its new? Will it ever get better?
I think all new carpets will do that to some extent--however I would think cheap carpets would be worse than others. I'm sure it'll still get better with time though, but since this is an apartment I doubt if the landlord spent top dollar for carpeting!
Well Its privatized Military Housing. They really have gone above and beyond with everything else (brand new appliances) I just couldnt see why they would skimp on the carpet. Maybe your right though. I hope it gets better soon. Dont know which is worse sweeping the carpet or unglogging the vac evey time I use it! LOL
If they went above and beyond with everything else then maybe it is good quality carpet, you're lucky then! I figured it was a regular apartment where the landlord figures the tenants are going to ruin everything eventually anyway so they'd rather put in the cheap stuff to begin with.
Carpet is the one item in your home that you buy by the square yard and throw out by the pound. Learned that while selling carpet years ago. Actually I think you need to report this to the housing authority on the post and present them with a bag of the carpet picked up in your vaccum sweeper. They may have gotten a bad roll of carpet and don't know about it because no one has reported it. If they don't do anything, see if you can locate the carpet supplier and talk to them. I think this is excessive.
When carpet is first layed the carpet will shed fibres. This will settle when all the excess fibres are swept and hoovered. You normally find this sort of fluff on twist pile carpets. Even very expensive carpets. I would''nt worry about it. Only if you start to see the backing. If you start to see the hessium or felt backing, the best move would be to get the manufacturer in. Many carpets come with a guarantee of some sort, a year to 5 years.
Just a quick tip: If you need to clean some dirt off the carpet use a cut (excess left over from the fitting) from the same colour carpet. This will prolong the quality of the carpet and prevent the diffusing of colour dye in the carpet. So if the carpet fitter has scraps, keep them for a day when you have a stain. Treat the carpet to soapy water.
