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Title: Anyone know what this is?
Post by: Pseudoscience-is-malarkey on 23/11/2015 00:59:13
Every house has these. I don't know if it's hair or carpet fibers or whatever, but they consistently form in the area of homes where carpet meets wall.
Title: Re: Anyone know what this is?
Post by: RD on 23/11/2015 09:35:25
Possibly spiked carpet-fitting tool puncturing rubber-backing, allowing dampness to seep through ?

(https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fthumbs4.ebaystatic.com%2Fd%2Fl225%2Fm%2FmJqA9YcrQnaVi-s5a5SY0Mw.jpg&hash=5eadfcbe270cdc8daa35cea179094ccf)(https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fthumbs1.ebaystatic.com%2Fd%2Fl225%2Fm%2FmefxV_1XJigLPu6SZ7S3VAQ.jpg&hash=989dc5bd5275757bc177cd2a3863ccf4)

Alternatively the marks may correspond with blobs of glue to hold the carpet in position.
Title: Re: Anyone know what this is?
Post by: Karen W. on 24/11/2015 15:26:37
Quote from: RD on 23/11/2015 09:35:25
Possibly spiked carpet-fitting tool puncturing rubber-backing, allowing dampness to seep through ?

(https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fthumbs4.ebaystatic.com%2Fd%2Fl225%2Fm%2FmJqA9YcrQnaVi-s5a5SY0Mw.jpg&hash=5eadfcbe270cdc8daa35cea179094ccf)(https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fthumbs1.ebaystatic.com%2Fd%2Fl225%2Fm%2FmefxV_1XJigLPu6SZ7S3VAQ.jpg&hash=989dc5bd5275757bc177cd2a3863ccf4)

Alternatively the marks may correspond with blobs of glue to hold the carpet in position.
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Quote from: Pseudoscience-is-malarkey on 23/11/2015 00:59:13
Every house has these. I don't know if it's hair or carpet fibers or whatever, but they consistently form in the area of homes where carpet meets wall.

I have never seen anything like that but when blown up it looks like a stain from the heel of a shoe...or something..It doesn't look furry or fuzzy or I would say a dust bunny made up of rug fibers formed from foot traffic path but has tumbled around and somehow collected up on the wall like a lonely dust bunny....
Title: Re: Anyone know what this is?
Post by: Karen W. on 24/11/2015 15:30:17
IT DOES LOOK LIKE 2 MOULDY SPOTS TO ME...!

Don may be right about moistue...

BY THE WAY THOSE AWFUL OLD RUG STRETCHERS


WERE REAL KNEE BRUISERS!!