Common Carpet Problems:
There are many commonly occuring carpet issues that prompt a call to a carpet inspector. Most of these problems can be placed in one of five categories. In no specific order, they are manufacture related; installation related; maintenance related; specification related; or end use related issues.
Some common carpet issues are as follows:
Bowing/skewed pattern
Buckling
Color bleeding
Crockling
Crush Marks
Crushing/matting
Delamination
Dimpling
Fading
Fluffing/Shedding
Fuzzing
Grease/oil marks
High/low tufts
Holes in the carpet
Improper shearing
Installation damage
Stretcher damage
Missing tufts
Odors
Off shade
Pattern mismatch, walkout, or wiggle
Pile reversal
Pooling, shading, or pile reversal