Warning: That easy strip and glue job last Tuesday nearly cost me my knee

I pulled up this old berber carpet from a 1970s basement in Springfield and found a rusty box cutter blade buried right under the padding that shot up through my kneepad when I leaned down, so has anyone else found random sharp junk hiding under old carpet layers?

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grantschmidt20d ago

Did that blade go all the way through the kneepad? I've found nails and staples but never a full blade, that's scary.

parkerp8020d ago

Yeah that blade going through the kneepad is no joke. I remember pulling up some shag carpet out of a old house in Eugene and found a whole sewing needle stuck straight up through the pad like a little spike. My wife still jokes I'm gonna find a buried treasure one of these days but so far it's just rusty junk and lost toys.

oscar_ellis18d ago

Actually I'm gonna push back on that a little. Finding a sewing needle in shag carpet is pretty tame compared to some of the stuff people pull out of old houses. You're basically just complaining about a minor inconvenience while the carpet guy in the post had a blade go through his kneepad. Thats like comparing a papercut to a stabbing. And your wife joking about buried treasure, thats kind of a sweet way to look at it honestly. You could be finding way worse things like asbestos or lead paint chips.