Storing Carpet

[Stephen Gower]

My wife is getting fed up with the rolls of carpet offcuts being stored in the house and wants them moved to the garage. They are 100% Polypropylene (actually

- and I would recommend ) and there is also a length of Cloud 9 underlay. How should I protect these offcuts for storage in an unheated, fairly damp garage?

[Chris Bacon]

Industrial cling-film, keep them raised on bits of 4x2 wrapped in same, cover with a cheap plastic tarpaulin.

[david lang]

In that case they are entirely plastic. Store them anyway you like, nothing much will happen to them. I've known of 100% polyprop carpets being hosed down in the garden to clean them.

Dave

[Ian Stirling]

Clean, new carpet, ok. Carpet that's been used at all is much trickier to store, as normal wear will have impregnated them with a layer of food for mould. Removing that is tricky later.