We were surprised to see the previous owners had left this lush carpet behind in our living room. It looks rather fuddy-duddy to me (and is a color that I'm not enamored with), but it feels so exquisitely deep and soft that I thought I might be able to find a way to live with it. And then last week, we discovered why it had been left there. We rolled up the carpet and found an underlay, feeling a little squishy, taped to the floor all around the edges. Of course, speculation was rife as to whether that was where the bodies were kept (!), but ...
apparently, the elderly occupant's son had INSISTED that the underfloor pad for the carpet MUST sit flush with the wooden floorboards, otherwise it would be too raised up and dangerous for someone with mobility issues. So ... they cut out the floorboards in the center of the room, inserted the carpet underlay and taped it down onto the floor all along its edges. Very weird, because the carpet itself is still raised above the floorboards. At least any carpet I replace this one with will also cover the hole in the floor, but I've not come across anyone destroying a wooden floor this way before - very, very odd indeed.
There were also some odd, random pieces of tile and perspex/plexiglass segments under the carpet edges, still unexplained.
