My house was built 1950.
Carpet coming up in the middle.
It can cost around 200 per room to have the carpet professionally re stretched to eliminate these bubbles.
It is quite common to find loose tackless strip on concrete sub floors.
Water in your basement can not only cause damage to the foundation of your home but to your health as well.
The good news is that if the carpet bubbles due to humidity there is a good chance it will flatten out when the weather cools down a bit.
To re stretch your carpet you could contact your retailer and have their professional installers come out to take care of it.
Unless the carpet is less than a year old it will likely cost you anywhere from 100 and up depending on the severity of the ripples and any other work that needs to take place moving furniture opening nearby seams.
As a group carpet installers are more willing than other contractors to take on small jobs and handle minor repairs.
If any ends of the carpet appear ragged clean up the cuts using a utility.
The last thing that might cause a carpet bubble is if the carpet gets too wet.
The main water supply to the house comes through front door way up the hallway into kitchen and is watertight.
However if the seams come up because they weren t glued down properly or if the tacking strips come loose from the edges these problems can be easily remedied.
If you believe this is the reason why water is coming up from your basement floor do not delay call your local waterproofing specialist right away.
I have damp coming up around the edges in some rooms kitchen lounge and all along a newly built internal partition stud wall.
I realized oh crap this is coming up through my carpet and it s cement right underneath so i gave my landlord a call and she had the maintenance man come look at it.
You don t want wet carpet.
The new wall had screws put into the old foundation of the original wall.
If you are in the middle of a very humid time of year you might see bubbling occur.
Many times carpet is rippling up because there is nothing to hold it in place.
However there s a simple method to repair the carpet that is much less expensive and takes only a few minutes to complete.
All you need is a bottle of carpet seam glue a large syringe pliers and a towel.