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wrote:
The man from the carpet warehouse came yesterday to measure up. At
the end he said "Don't take up the gripper rods - they can be re-
used". I told him that in the two previous houses where we'd
recarpeted we'd been told to take up the old gripper rods. He said it
was a waste of money - they can perfectly well be reused.

I don't want to spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar (not that the
rods would cost anything like a ha'porth) but is he right?

Assuming they were correctly fitted in the first place and still securely
fixed there's nothing to wear out on them.

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