B.W Carpet RAKE by JUMBL

Works very well on my carpet.Shipped without handle. I had to purchase a handle myself.

We bought this rake less than a year ago. We have used it maybe three or four times. I went to use it today and the entire thing pulled apart and all the tines came out. It is not sturdy and does not come with a handle.

Great to freshen up a room for last minute guests, or a daily clean up. you will have to get a pole as it doesn't come with one. Be sure it is long enough for you can stand up to rake. I'm 6'0" tall so I needed a long pole so as not to bend over. I've always wanted a carpet rake and was jealous of my girlfriends whose carpets always looked freshly vacuumed.The price was so affordable. We are selling our house so I spend about 15 minutes before a showing raking the carpets. a much better solution that dragging out the canister vacuum cleaner anytime guests come.

If you have a heavy pet hair problem in dense carpet, this is not the tool you want to buy. Go ahead and spend $20 more for a Grandi Groomer. It is built many times stronger, with a long, strong handle, and is made to dig hard into carpet and bring up hair and soil. In theory, this item is made the same way as a Grandi Groomer, with two parallel rows of nylon "teeth," but it is for light duty only. But that's not bad. Here's why. I recently had some new carpet put in part of my house. I didn't realize that this carpet had a "nap" and would show footprints. Vacuuming leaves its own unnatural marks. Then I thought, "Rake it with the Grandi Groomer!" And that took care of the footprint problem. But the G.G. is a big tool, too big to tuck behind a sofa for easy access, with too long of a handle to permit a quick raking in tight places. You need something smaller, lighter, shorter for that job--and this is it. As for the handle--don't you have an old mop that needs replacing? Cut off the handle and use it in this rake. Sand down the tip 'til it fits into the socket and don't force it. Then drill a small pilot hole and insert the set screw they send you. You don't want more than about a 4' handle length on this, maybe only 3'. Note that you don't "push" this tool--you pull it toward you, as is the case with the G.G. But for a quick, light rake job you need to diminish the angle between the handle and the floor down to about 30 degrees or less. This means getting your hand down to about knee height or less and pulling gently. It's very easy work when done this way. And your carpet will look perfect (until you walk across it again). This tool is also useful for smoothing out the fringe on an oriental rug. Plus, if your pet hair distributor (dog/cat) just leaves little tufts here and there on the surface, you'll do fine for that with this tool as well. Just don't start pressing hard or digging in. Think of it like combing your hair--you don't dig the comb into your scalp, I hope! One more thing: the nylon "teeth" on this look like they were just cut off square with a machine (not rounded and smoothed on the tips) and you can feel little "burrs" on the tips when you run your fingers across them. Those burrs are going to snag on tiny carpet fibers. So, before using, take a piece of medium-to-fine sandpaper and work on those burrs until they are gone. Get a cup of coffee and sit down, as this might take you 15 or 20 minutes. Put the sandpaper at an angle to the teeth and go back and forth on the inside and outside of both rows--lightly--until you don't feel the burrs anymore. You can understand, I hope, why the manufacturer doesn't pay somebody to do this on each unit produced, as it would drive up the cost substantially. But it's no big deal for you and me to do it. Disclosure: I do not sell Grandi Groomers and I do not sell this product, either. Nor do I own any interest in their mfr. or production. I do own a Grandi Groomer (my second one) and now one of these as well. I'll park this one out of sight behind the piano in the living room. The Grandi Groomer resides out in the garage next to the garden rakes.

I noticed when I went to use this the third time it was missing teeth, I started using it, and they just started falling out left and right… It needs to be more sturdy, returning the item

I was one of those people who didn't read the product description all the way through so I missed the part where it doesn't come with a handle and that you'll need to purchase your own, which was no big deal. However, after purchasing and attaching the handle the rake broke within ten minutes of use. The tines are each an individual piece and they are held in by pressure and nothing else, so when it broke I had tines everywhere. I was able to repair it, buy it took a great deal of time and patience.Other than that, it works how I expect but next time I'll just pay more for something different.

What a JOKE. This is not a TRUE carpet rake and it’s the worst item I’ve bought this year! Hopefully, it’s not a sign of how the rest of my year is going to be. Read the entire instructions on this item. It comes without the handle, which in my hastily decision to order, came as a shook to me. I looked it up and realized that it says at the very end of the description “ no handle”. It also arrived several days later than described by the seller.This is not strong enough to rejuvenate the matted down area of the carpet that gets the most traffic. My old one that I can’t find was made of stainless steal and had no problems with making the high traffic area look like it is suppose to, but plastic tines are no match for our high traffic area now. It’s actually carpet that is newer and shouldn’t be as hard to raise the matted areas as our old carpeting. It’s been down since 2018. Our old rake worked very well at lifting the carpet fibers and in a fast manner. After I found an old broom to saw the handle off of, it was time to give this thing a try. But it was not as simple as I thought it would be.I sawed the handle off of an old broom to discover that not all handles are the same size. I had two different ones to choose from and I chose the one that was obviously smaller in size. It was still slightly too big, but I made it work. I had my neighbor who has a wood working shop sand a slight bit off the handle as I turned it slowly. It finally was small enough to fit snugly into the hole. Then after getting back home, putting the single screw into the wooden handle was much more trouble than it was worth. Luckily my neighbor was still in his garage working and drilled a small pilot hole in the handle. If I had tried to screw the supplied screw in by hand I would have had a huge blister on my palm.The real problem is two major issues with this product. The single screw idea is poorly designed and the handle kept wanting to move side to side. The second is the plastic tines are not strong enough to make the carpet stand back up. Several of plastic teeth, which are very weak, broke off and this was a complete waste of time and money. I found a really stiff garage broom that I forgot we even had and it worked much better at lifting the matted area than this “so called” carpet rake. Luckily it was twice as wide and not an expensive broom, which is why it had never been used, so the spacing between the bristles where more effective than this plastic device. It might be better off sold as a brush for a long hired dog but it’s not a carpet rake by any means.I will buy another proper one from the same local big box store for far less than the best one for sale on Amazon when this pandemic mess gets hopefully better. It’s not going to be expensive, even with inflation as the one I had was like $25.00.

This item is useless, can't find a pole to fit in it to use like a brush and by hand it's rubbish. Expensive and useless. Very disappointed.