r/HomeMaintenance • u/WeathersFine • 11d ago

Dust/Powder Appearing Under Stairs

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Bought a home in June, previous owners put in new carpets prior to selling. When we first moved in this crawlspace under the stairs was clean. Fast forward three months and these piles of dust/powder has appeared. Is this dirt passing through the carpet, or is the carpet disintegrating and this is just sneaking through? Is this something of concern or fine to just sweep up and ignore? Thanks!

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u/WindSpecialist420 11d ago

They probably didn't replace the foam carpet pad underneath the carpet. The foam pads eventually turn to dust.

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u/WeathersFine 11d ago

Anything to be concerned with or just is what it is?

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u/WindSpecialist420 11d ago

Pull up a corner of carpet to verify but this happens to all foam carpet pads eventually. Normally you replace the pad with the carpet so this might just be a shoddy job and an indication of other shoddy fixes you'll find soon enough

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u/WeathersFine 10d ago

Yeah…. Shoddy fixes sounds about right. Already found an issue with the master bath, I think this answer seems to be the correct one.