Classroom Rugs

If you’ve ever watched your classroom rug budget disappear before you’ve found the rug you actually want, factory seconds are worth understanding. The short version: these are commercial-grade classroom rugs from the same manufacturers that supply the rest of our catalog, sold at a discount because they didn’t pass the manufacturer’s quality inspection for first-quality sale. The imperfection is always cosmetic. The rug is otherwise identical to its full-price counterpart in every way that matters inside a classroom.

A new rug that develops wrinkles or bunching after a few months of use isn’t defective. In most cases, one of four preventable causes is responsible. Here’s how to identify which one and fix it.