Film from carpet padding.
Hard spots in carpet padding.
In any event the the carpet has to move first.
We moved some furniture out and under the couch the carpet looks almost new.
Today we pulled the carpet back and found the cause of the lumps was reaction from water on the thermal tape.
There isnt really any bunching of carpet.
The house was built in 1979 so it is a waxed wood floor.
Return to the corner of the room where you began and get down on all fours.
Is the bunching in the high traffic areas like doorways and halls if yes carpet is not stretched enough.
Mineral spirits and elbow grease should help to soften it up.
Sweep the areas of the floor from which you able to remove the loose larger pieces of carpet pad.
Carpet padding onto of concrete subfloor wet as talked about in another post i had hard spots under 2 year old carpet.
Just feeling hard spots when walking on.
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Its a hi lo carpet with almost shag long yarns and real short yarns that dont have cut ends like the long ones.
If the carpet moves the pad can move if it wasn t stapled properly causing bunps in the pad and carpet.
Throw away the debris.
Thank you for helping me.
I have a call in to a basement repair company to call me but im trying to fish for some thoughts.