Rucked up rugs!!

Got rid of rugs as a tripping hazard when my DH came home from hospital after suffering a stroke, he could only use a walking frame so they got put away. Now he can use a quad stick but can fall over without any rugs in the way so they are staying rolled up under the stairs.

Mwdebbie

We have two small rugs on top of a fitted will carpet and they constantly ruck up. I’ve tried a special underlay from Amazon which is supposed to prevent this happening but it hasn’t worked. Can anyone recommend an underlay you’ve used for a rug on a carpet and which stops the rug rucking up? Many thanks

I bought mine from Amazon last year (about £30, I think from Rugstore-outlet specifically for a big rug sitting on a carpet) and it's been brilliant.

Yes the answer seems to be getting rid of the rugs . However I love the way rugs look on a plain floor so I put up with them moving daily. It's like a ritual moving them back every day. I took them up to see if I could get used to not having them but it looked so bare I put them back.
The one in the kitchen is ok , the kitchen table is on it and it never moves but then its not on top of carpet of course. Its the carpets that are the problem.

I have had to remove my rug which sat on a carpet for the same reason as others, a trip hazard.
However when I did have it I got a piece of “ cloth” from John Lewis, when I bought my rug from them, sold for just the purpose.
It had to be cut to shape but it was perfect.
The rug didn’t move a centimetre, I think it was about £60 but that was some years ago now.
It was excellent.

I used to have this problem. But recently my family solved it for me by getting rid of my rugs because they are trip hazards.

No rugs in our house…….far too dangerous as all they do is present trip hazards.

My advice??? Get rid of the rugs!

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The rug on carpet problem is a tricky one because most standard underlays are designed for hard floors and just don't grip carpet pile the way you need them to.

What actually works is a gripper underlay specifically made for carpet on carpet use. Look for ones with a waffle or spike texture on both sides rather than the flat mesh type you likely got from Amazon. The Gripitt or Stay Put varieties made for this exact situation are worth trying.

That said, the rug itself makes a big difference too. Flatweave rugs tend to stay put far better than thicker pile ones on carpet. <a href="https://dashalbertrugs.com">Dash & Albert</a> make some excellent flatweave options that are much better behaved on carpet than most, and they look great doing it.

If you want a belt and braces solution, a few strips of double sided carpet tape around the edges in addition to a good underlay will solve it permanently. Just be mindful of your fitted carpet underneath when you eventually pull it up.

I've been bombarded with their ads, although I'm not in the market for one, MIYorkshire
I noticed the ad shows wooden floors. It might not perform so well on top of carpet?

I do have one that doesn't move, it's from a company called 'RUGGABLE'

It comes with it's own underlay, and the corners of the rug are sort of tucked into the underlay so that it doesn't move,

The rugs are also washable, which helps when you have dogs and the weather is like it has been all year!

ruggable.co.uk/

We use double sided tape on ours , worked a treat

Rugs are a trip hazard, best avoided.

It is weird, my rug doesn’t move much when there’s just me, but when I have a visitor, sitting in a different chair, it moves a lot.

I have a very large, thick rug in my lounge. It sits on a thick carpet and does not move. It has a heavy coffee table and a large leather footstool sitting on it. There's nothing between the rug and the carpet. The only time it moves is when I turn the rug every couple of months.
On the other hand I have a fairly lightweight rug in the dining room in front of the porch door. It has a life of it's own, it moves constantly, I could straighten it six times a day and it still wouldn't be straight. That rug sits on a wool carpet, the rug is synthetic and will soon be heading for the bin or charity shop and become someone else's problem.

We bought this from Wayfair and it it brilliant, as we have a dog it catches hairs so we just pop it in the washing machine and it becomes 'sticky' again.

www.wayfair.co.uk/rugs/pdp/symple-stuff-pastrana-premium-rug-mat-gripper-for-hard-floors-carpets-u000380638.html?piid=799136873

It's very weird, isn't it Elegran

Perhaps we should set up security cameras!

Cabbie21

We have some grippers but they don’t really work. It helps if you can anchor the rug down with furniture.

I put a heavy solid wood coffee table on top of my creeping rug, (which is on top of carpet). It STILL moves, taking the coffee table with it, even if no-one even enters that room. I didn't use the room at all for a couple of weeks, but when I went in later, it had moved a least a foot.. I had left it touching the edge of the hearth.

That room faces south and gets the sunsine, so I think it must be some effect of expansion and contraction, by day and night. Maybe the pile of the carpet underneath it assists the creeping.

Either that or I have a poltergeist.

My husband got so mad with our rug he tacked it down to the carpet! It still moves and now I can’t clean under the rug properly.

We got some special underlay for Persian rugs on carpets. It was pretty expensive but works perfectly. Could you Google it? It came from a specialist Persian rug dealer.

(Actually, sorry, I’ve just realised you have a rug on top of a carpet - our rugs are on hard floors)

This works for two rugs we have, though has to be replaced every 6 months or so…..

www.dunelm.com/product/rug-anti-slip-mat-1000002949

I've got this and it rucks up:

I have a seven feet by five feet rug in my living room on a wood floor which has rug stop underneath and it has never moved. It looks a bit like the sort of fleece you put over plants to stop frost damaging them. We bought it from a very good carpet supplier but I can remember the brand name now. If you go to a carpet supplier they should be able to advise you. It also worked on top of a carpet in our last house.

RHS?
No - rugs.

Autocorrect.

A couple of our RHS are rolled up and out of the way at the moment.

I don't have any answers, sorry, Mwdebbie but I do know the grippy separate non-slip underlay under the rug at the front door, on a laminate floor, gets rucked up.

The rug in the sitting room, a large one, stays flat on a carpet but 'walks' every day and has to be pulled back.