I had two very stubborn rugs. One in the bedroom approximately 6ft x 9ft and the other in our main living room under the coffee table. The rug in our bedroom gave me fits. It was constantly wrinkled no matter how often I struggled to smooth it out. The living room rug was a mess as well. With a little one and two big dogs laying on it, it constantly bunched and drove me nuts. Both rugs were an investment and the constant struggle against the bunching and rippling was a real bummer. I don't know why it took me so long to look into a solution from this incessant irritant to my raging OCD, but a Google search yielded the answer: rug tape. This large roll was just enough to do both rugs (living room rug is 4 x 7). It's been several weeks and no ripples! Hallelujah!!

Once I figured out to tear, not cut this tape, I was in love with it. Think double-sided duct tape. VERY sticky and can hold anything together. Perfect for holding carpets and rugs down. I used on the back of rubber stair treads to stick down to laminate wood flooring, but it seems like it could stick to anything. The roll gives you a good amount and is a good width.

I purchased this to use on two rugs. The first is a brand new 9 x 12 rug over carpet in our living room. It wasn't too bad to begin with, but did "walk a smidge." We have two little kids and a dog so it sees a lot of running, jumping, playing and rolling (from the dog :). The rug was only a couple weeks old and some of the creases from shipping hadn't fully fallen out so it had ripples in places. I applied a strip of this tape around the perimeter of the rug as well as a line down the center. It has been a few days and the rug hasn't budged! Total success!

The second rug is an 8 x 8 in our nursery, also over carpet. It was a hot mess and would bunch up as soon as you walked on it. I applied a line of tape around the perimeter and would have applied more but I ran out of tape.

So far both rugs are holding strong! My only bit of advice would be to buy more tape than you think you need. If I were to do this again I would place tape all around the perimeter of the rug and then more through the center of the rug, either in strips or as an "x," to ensure that it would lay as flat as possible. It is sort of hard to go back and add more tape (not sure if you can pull this up and reposition it). While my rugs are holding in place, it was really hard to smooth out every ripple, despite having help, and this kind of annoys me.

I needed something to secure a small oriental square to the wood floor in a difficult area at my back door. It's difficult because that's the door where I load wood for my fireplace from the wood pile just outside the door, to the rolling transport cart. When I back the full log cart away from the door to get behind it and then start out forward to get to the den, it often moves the carpet square and/or gets stuck on it. What a pain. I've tried a couple of different methods to secure the rug but neither worked out. This tape is my latest try and so far it's doing a great job. I followed the directions sent by email from the vendor and made sure the carpet back and floor were clean and dust free. I attached two lengths of the tape to the back of the carpet first and then carefully positioned it where I wanted it before putting it down on the floor and then pressing it down with my feet thoroughly.

Although it's currently summer I tried out the log cart by loading up the newly cleaned out wood storage area next to the fireplace and had no problem with the cart displacing the rug. It's a flat sturdy close weave rug, only 1.5' square, meant to be a sample of a bigger Persian rug. It was luckily found on sale when a carpet store closed and has served me well, but has taken lots of abuse in that location. I expect it will last much longer now that it isn't getting kicked all over the room. I am pleased enough with this tape holding securely that I will now attach the outdoor carpet treads that are on my garage stairs. Even though they are rubber backed, they move around and it will be nice to have them secured as well. I also want to try it in a couple of other difficult areas where it will really be put to a test. I'll update after the tape has been down a while if I notice further developments that might be useful to add.

Excellent product. I minus one star because the tape has a strong adhesive on both sides but only one side of the tape has a paper cover. This makes it very difficult for one person to cut the exact length required without risking losing the pieces of cut tape, as once the tape touches itself you can not save the piece of tape. By having the tape rolled up with a paper cover on both sides of the tape you can easily measure and cut in advance all the pieces you will need before using. Other than that the tape is remarkably good and I recommend it for use on rugs. Aside from rugs I use it to hold down step pads which requires tape with strong adhesive strength and exact lengths for holding down the very edge of the pads. Although the cost is for the required amount of tape is not low, (for maximum strength you need to lay the tape on the floor and then again on the rug itself perpendicular to the tape on the floor. This results in a much higher cost that one would first think, but in my opinion it is well worth the current cost. If they would package the tape with both sides covered in paper without raising the price I would give this product 6 stars.