I noticed tremendous fumes from my wall to wall 100% rug and kept the house aired out for days. Never noticesd any fumes from the polypropylene rug I bought.

I just purchased a large polypropylene rug (Safavieh, not Esale, but I wouldn't expect much difference). It had that new rug smell for less than a day. Smelled just like the wool wall-to-wall recently installed elsewhere.

Nope.

Nary a wiff after a few hours on the floor.

Thanks so much for the feedback. Off to look at runners.

Any suggestions for dealing with the landing on the stairs?

Here's an idea for the landing.Hope it helps.

http://www.houzz.com/projects/50215/Stair-Runner-Landing-Installations

I bought two runners and two 5x7 rugs last week. Polypropolene with jute backing. They arrived yesterday and I love how they look, but they smell strongly of insecticide. Weirdly, they didn't at first. By evening, though--wow. I've got them airing outside now. I hope the smell dissipates.

I've heard that loaded shipping containers often get bombed with pesticides and herbicides on the docks or on ships. Maybe that's what happened. I haven't contacted esalerugs rugs yet. Disappointing.

ratherbesewing, yes that helped immensely. Looks like a rug with a border will look better to co-ordinate the landing.

Algeasea, I truly hope the smell dissipates and quickly. Please update if you contact esale.

Algea,

that's not good! Do all four pieces smell the same? Are they made in Turkey? Mine did not smell at all., and I'm pretty sensitive.

I also checked the EU rapid alert system for Turkey and couldn't find any products flagged.

http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/consumers_safety/safety_products/rapex/alerts/main/index.cfm?event=main.search

Yes, all four smell the same and all were made in Turkey. I don't think it's the materials in the rugs. It smells like bug spray. While I've had old Pottery Barn wool rugs that smelled weird, kind of like burnt rubber, this is new to me.

I'm leaving the rugs out overnight. Will report back on how they smell tomorrow.

Neverbedone, you could do a variety of things. You could upholster the stairs only, both runs, and purchase shorter size runner to lay on a thin pad on the landing. I like this option best be use it allows you to pick up the rug no clen the floor underneath. Or, the installers could attach another piece of the runner on the landing. Do the stairs turn 180 degrees or 90 degrees ? If the latter you have a third option. From either direction ( bottom stairs up or top stirs down, depending on who Mose the most sense in your co figuration) let the runner continue onto the landing and stop it short of the next run. Have it bound or have them I still it so the fringed edge if there is one is on that end. Then just start upholstering the next run from under the stair tread.

We did this on our stairs to the basement. Instead of fringe at the ends, the runners had a decorative detail. They were cut up for the stairs, obviously, and the landing is the only place you see that end detail. Here are pictures of our 90 degree turn stairs and landing. I think we used three 8 ft long runners:

the photos are screen shots from my old gardenweb post:

I recently bought a couple of 10 ft ESale runners for other stairs, a short run of five stairs with a long hallway at the bottom projecting in a straight line. One runner will be upholstered in the stairs and the other will simply lay on the floor without attachment. They are polypropylene and I have no idea how they will hold up but there is absolutely no smell. The existing wool runner, however, off-gassed for years, it smelled like something was burning especially when it rained. I've had it for 20 years and it has finally stopped! (I kept it because it went really well with a tapestry bell pull my mother gave me that hangs in the same hallway.)