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Me being a none plasterer I was assuming it could be an easy fix with tape, putting a length of scrim tape on 4 walls would take a matter off seconds for you guys, but to screw a full house in carpet gripper would take hours, I wouldn't expect plaster to come off screw heads that easy but it...

No wind up mate, yes gripper rods are fixed 6mm away from skirting board, in the new builds we are doing at the moment when we are fixing gripper in the bedrooms above on the perimeter or the house, the plaster is coming off screws underneath in the living room etc, but only on the perimeter of...

Not going to happen :coffe:

I know what you mean we have extras put on our job too with no extra pay like screwing grips on stairs the worst is scraping all the silicon off the skirting board and arcs so we can get a good finish flush to the skirting, that can take 2 of us up to a hour on a full house, But the main one is...

Not on that site today but done another new build today and the grippers didn't cause any problems, we've asked other site managers and they said they get the odd one now and again. the site in question are getting them every time carpets are being fitted, ten in one house we fitted recently.

I catch your drift now :)

Didn't mean to send that one sorry, I do agree with your comment on site work though no quality in materials or work

I don't know if they've missed the joists or not, we are the carpet fitters so the house is finished when we start but it does mainly happen only around the outer perimeter of the building and only on this one site. Not on any other sites we are working on.

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That sounds like the way forward Cheers for the reply

Cheers I will have a word with site manager

It's happening straight after installation of carpet gripper.

Thanks for the reply but would scrim tape sort this problem? I wouldn't say its carpet fitters at fault as it's not happening on internal walls upstairs, it's easy to say carpet fitter fault but what I want to know is what could solve it?

We've been having problems with the plaster coming away from screws in the new build properties where carpets are being fitted. It seems to be happening only where the grippers are being installed, we are not using excessive force just a little more than the weight off the hammer, none of the...

Cheers casplas glad your pleased I will let you know when I've got more stock!