Rug on carpet - non slip underlay recommendation needed

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'Turtlemats' are quite good at staying put. You just need one on the inside of each door to act as barrier and collect up worse. But scattered rugs are really silly for the less fit or older person.

My MiL always insisted on covering her carpet with rugs. Lots of them were just square carpet samples and eminently fall overable. She also shuffled around in lethally dangerous mules and got very cross if anyone told her not to.
Surprise, surprise she is now confined to a chair and unable to walk after a couple of falls too many. "I never thought I'd end up like this" is a favourite comment!

I have an inlaid coconut fibre mat laid into a recess just inside my front door. This stops dirt being trampled into the house.

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I ment to add that it might seem a bit drastic but once he realised that it was to help stop more incidents that needed trips to A&E he soon came around. He too had a cream carpet but to be honest he hardly noticed the accumulating tea and coffee stains. We just took a VAX around once a month to get rid of worse. One of the benefits of failing eye-sight is that you dont see the stains so much. Seriously, you wont see rugs of any kind in care homes etc, they are potential disasters because even the fittest oldie can have a most alarming bone breakage from just a slight fall.

When FIL came home from hospital after a fall and a bit of a 'turn' he had a home assessment for his continued health and welfare....you coping for himself and limiting potential falling problems. The first thing on the list was to get rid of ALL rugs.

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Good carpet shops usually sell 'rug stop' underlay to put between rugs and carpets, which can be cut to size. I've used it and it is effective. There is also one to go between rugs and hard floors which is very effective.

Lakeland do something. We have a big mat just inside the front door which we hold down with yellow double sided sticky stuff that comes on a roll. One disadvantage of it though is that it comes up if you use a strong hoover on it. We use a GTech electric 'ewbank' on it. I think they also do cats claws.

Thank you, that is useful. it is a case of finding the right words to put into google sometimes.

Cats claws rug grippers.

That is a thought. There is a bit of a family "its got to look right" think with my ILs. Hell is freezing over, but does the house look like a show home? Not sure if this option would pass muster. But definately a thought. thanks

When children were young and coming in with bicycles, etc. we had a long clear plastic runner with bumps on the back to grip the carpet. Not pretty, but it did the job until we could afford laminate flooring.