I found the best rug tape

After trying several brands of anti-slip rug tape, I can assertively report that the Roberts brand Rug Gripper Slip Tape is the only one that was any good.

There are two requirements for stuff like this:

1: Grip both floor and rug.

2: Without damaging either.

Most store-bought floor tape fails to meet 1, presumably to avoid any danger of 2. Disappointment leads to purchases of what amounts to double-sided duct tape, which gets good reviews but leads inexorably to regret when you decide the rug should be a foot over that way. Nice wood floor you had, asshole!

But this brand did the trick on our stair runners: it's sticky but not gluey, is thick and easy to cut, and adhered well to both rug and polished wood without curing to either. It passed the vacuum test and the fourteen runners on our staircase have all finally, mercifully remained in place for a week.

I got it at Home Depot but it's also at Amazon.

I leave you with FATAL FLOOR, a UK public information film from the 1970s that perfectly embodies the paradoxical British combination of nannying and malice, and is perhaps responsible for that nation's inexplicable attachment to carpet.