Hard Patch On Carpet

Instead of a utility knife you could buy a special carpeting tool called a cookie cutter.

Hard patch on carpet. Seal the seams with adhesive and let it dry for as long as its directions require. A carpet knife makes straighter cleaner cuts than a utility knife. Wet your carpet patch pad under water and wring out the excess. If the patch is to be applied against a wall and the room has baseboard molding your two options are.

Carpet patching is a simple system of carefully cutting out the damaged area and replacing it with a patch of donor carpet of the same size. A remove the baseboard and reinstall it after laying down the carpet patch or b leave the baseboard in place and install the tack strip 1 4 away from the baseboard as described in the next step. Place a narrow bead of carpet seam glue along the perimeter of the cutout. The pad should be damp but not dripping.

Carpet patch pads are used to iron on specially made adhesive disks that activate with the help of heat. You can patch a small hole tear or burn using techniques that will make the repair virtually invisible. Wet the carpet patch pad. Carpet tape is available in double sided and single sided versions.

The single sided type generally works best for this type of repair peel the backing away from the adhesive side of the tape and carefully insert the piece into the cut out area smoothing it flat from below so that it sticks firmly to the carpet backing around the perimeter. Align the arrow on the patch with the direction of the fibers in the rest of the carpet and stick the patch down firmly onto the disk. Your carpet patch pad may be aluminum sided on the top and contain a previous material on the bottom. Tools and supplies you will need.

After measuring and double checking your. You ll need a small plug of carpet that matches the damaged piece. Apply some carpet adhesive onto the patch requiring floor. Twist the cookie cutter back and forth to cut through the remnant and damaged carpet at the same time.

Using the kit tools or a utility knife carefully carve out the carpet section you wish to patch then immediately proceed to prepare the replacement. Hold the patch in place for a little while. If you re using carpet tape stick it onto the base floor as well. Because the donor area is filled in either with a piece of remnant carpet or is left unrepaired carpet patching is considered to be imperfect but a net overall improvement.