Grip-It Magic Stop Rug PAD, 2x8, White

This non-slip pad is perfection. It does exactly what it was designed to do. I can't say enough good things about it. If you're on the fence take the plunge. You won't be disappointed.Though there were no instruction on how to use it or deploy it, with a bit of thinking you'll figure it out. Don't peel the backing off the pad until you get it in place.I have an oriental rug over carpet in my livingroom. The rug was always slowly moving across the carpet and bunching up on my couch. I have a chair on one corner that I thought would hold the rug in place, but that never worked. I would have to move the chair and drag the rug back into place every week. Now that this pad is in place the rug hasn't move at all. It stayed exactly where I put it. I can vacuum the rug with no issues and haven't had to adjust it once since using this pad. This is one of the best purchases I've made in a long time.Here is how I suggest you set it up:Vacuum the area onto which you're going to put the pad, and vacuum the bottom of the rug you're going to use it to hold in place.Both side of the pad are sticky, but only one side has a backing to peel off as the other side is folded onto itself for protection. I put the pad down onto rug I wanted it to hold in place with the protected side down. This allowed me to trim it with heavy duty scissors on two sides to make it just a bit smaller than the rug.Once that was done I rolled up the rug, put the pad down on the livingroom carpet with the unprotected side down while leaving the backing on the other side. This allowed me to smooth out the pad and help remove some of the creases created by it being folded to fit into the packaging.I then unrolled the rug back onto pad. This allowed me to make sure the pad was completely hidden by the rug. It also allowed me to walk over the rug to get the pad to stick to the carpet. I kept checking the pad to make sure it was smooth. If it wasn't I unpeeled the backing, pulled the pad from the edge, and then allowed the backing to fall back on it so I could keep adjusting both the pad and run.Once everything was where I wanted it, I rolled the rug up to one end, then with it still rolled up, rolled it just far enough towards the center of the pad to start peeling the backing off the top of the pad. Once about a quarter of the backing was peeled away I rolled the rug back to the peeled edge. I knelt on the edge of the rug that was now being stuck to the top of the pad and kept peeling the backing off the top of the pad while unrolling the rug. I did this all the way across the pad. This worked great and the rug hasn't moved since.

I have a few rugs over carpet that always creep as we walk on them. Since one edge of these rugs is held under either the bed legs or couch legs (one in bedroom and one in living room) a wrinkle and ridge develops after just a day or two that becomes a trip hazard and safety issue as a result. I ordered this for one of my rugs as a trial and after almost a week of constant walking on that rug with this pad under it there has been NO creep, NO wrinkles or ridges. The carpet is relatively new, only about a year old so the pile is not yet compressed. This pad has solved the issue for that rug over the carpet so I am ordering another pad for my other rugs.The pad is sticky on both sides and comes folded in half so one side is against itself and the other side has a plastic film to be removed once it is put in place. I pulled the rug straight, flat and smooth first and marked the corners with blue painters tape so I know exactly where to put the pad. Then I took up the rug and placed the folded pad within that space with a portion of it unfolded so the sticky side was exposed, but not too much. I initially only exposed a little of one edge from end to end to ensure I placed it correctly where it needed to go. Then, while making sure that edge didn't move, I unfolded more of the pad as I smoothed it out across the space. Once that was done I carefully laid the rug on top the pad with the plastic film still in place. I pulled back one edge of the rug and pulled away the plastic film, tucking that against the fold in the rug. Then I pulled the edge of the rug I had pulled back to lay over the exposed sticky top of the pad. Then I proceeded on one side and then the other to pull the plastic film from under the rug to the other end as I stayed on the part of the rug that was being stuck to the pad until all of the rug was covering the pad. Any excess pad can be trimmed at this time. As I mentioned, so far the rug has not moved at all from where it was placed despite a lot of walking on it.

This works pretty well. We have this on our rug that has access from the garage. It gets daily use. We put this down to help with the huge amount of traffic that we get in this spot. It’s our most used entrance.It does start to walk a little bit but it never bunches and is easy to reposition. We have to put it back in the correct position about once a month.With that said it’s easily worth every cent. It’s thin so it does not give the rug a lot of lift which is what we wanted. Our feet do not catch on it very often. So much better than other rug mats we have tried that are simply too thick.

We’ve bought this product before and it worked out great and lasted a few years. This time though, the top part (the side sticking to the rug) wasn’t really sticky and in some places wasn’t sticky at all. Which is a shame considering it worked out so well previously. Will retur

I needed to prevent buckling of a 5'3"x7'3" rug place on a berber carpet. I roll an office chair on, off and around the rug. This pad did the trick! As they say in a famous commercial, no more wrinkles! The normal procedure is to first stick the pad on the carpet and then lay the area rug down on the pad. For me, I found that doing the opposite - attaching the pad to the area rug first and then laying the area rug + pad down on the carpet worked best.

Works on carpet. Pleasantly surprised.

it worked great for about 2 weeks, now the carpet is moving around and the pad keeps bunching up under the carpet

Well this does not worK! It should hold rug in place over carpet as it states it does. Nope! It was expensive and rug continues to move. Would return but in used condition now as had to cut to fit.

I wanted to stop a small rug from sliding on the carpet. It looked from the description that this would be the solution. Not at all. Does not work on carpet. It does work fine on on-carpet surfaces, but definitely not on carpet.

This underpaid works quite well for my area rug I wanted to lay on top of the wall to wall carpet in the living room seems to hold both the area rug in place very well, we did have to get tape to hold down the edges as well. With this done, the carpet stays in place, no shifting, no curling of the edges. This underpaid was also a great price! I’m very happy with this purchase.

We recently bought a rug for our dartboard and it wouldn't stay straight and would bunch up. We tried some Velcro and it was going to be pricey to get enough to hold the whole thing down. This pad works awesome. Rug no longer moves while playing darts.

Keeping rug flat. Does as advertised.More instructions would be good.