Hard Patch On Carpet

If you re using carpet tape stick it onto the base floor as well.

Hard patch on carpet.

A carpet knife makes straighter cleaner cuts than a utility knife. Tools and supplies you will need. If the patch is to be applied against a wall and the room has baseboard molding your two options are. It s better to let the hole patch dry for at least 24 hours before vacuuming that area.

You can patch a small hole tear or burn using techniques that will make the repair virtually invisible. Apply some carpet adhesive onto the patch requiring floor. Wet the carpet patch pad. Twist the cookie cutter back and forth to cut through the remnant and damaged carpet at the same time.

Place a narrow bead of carpet seam glue along the perimeter of the cutout. 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. Your carpet patch pad may be aluminum sided on the top and contain a previous material on the bottom. 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.

The pad should be damp but not dripping. 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. Instead of a utility knife you could buy a special carpeting tool called a cookie cutter. Wet your carpet patch pad under water and wring out the excess.

Carpet tape is available in double sided and single sided versions. Place your patch to fill the hole the way that the patch s fibers follow the direction of the rest carpeting fibers. Carpet patch pads are used to iron on specially made adhesive disks that activate with the help of heat. 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.

Hold the patch in place for a little while. Pluck out any loose carpet fibers around the edge of the hole and the surrounding carpet. After measuring and double checking your. Seal the seams with adhesive and let it dry for as long as its directions require.