Carpet Has Patch Underside

Double check your measurements to cut out a patch of a decent size.

Carpet has patch underside.

Within a week or so the damp spot progressed to a puddle 4 by 6 feet that a wet vac couldn t really keep up with. Before you lay down the solution though it s a good idea to test your carpet for colorfastness. Turn your carpet cutout to make its bottom side face up lay it onto the new piece of carpeting and cut out the patch along the old carpet piece s sides. Big patches of light colored stains are appearing randomly on my carpet.

You may also hear the term unitary backing which. 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. Most carpets have a double backing. The pad should be damp but not dripping.

The carpet has been down about 8 10 years and this has just started happening. They are now beginning to appear in our bedroom same carpet. The primary backing where the yarn is tufted into and the secondary backing which is the outer material. Wet the carpet patch pad.

Rubber backing is great to keep scatter rugs in place but rubber breaks down over time. The carpet is a soft gold beige color. Dilute the colored patch with a damp towel. Continue to color and dilute until you ve blended the color to match your carpet.

The temporary fix was to rip up the carpet knock a hole in the concrete slab repair the leaking pipe fill in the hole with quickcrete cement and restretch the carpet once it and the pad had dried. These stains are mainly in the dinning and great room. Pick a small spot that s hidden say under the couch or sofa and hit it with a little of the. If a section of your floor covering has seen better days remember that you can patch carpet saving the considerable cost of replacing the entire thing.

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. Coloring the bleached patch will likely result in a darker hue than the surrounding carpet. It secures the tufts and gives the carpet additional strength and dimensional stability. Or draw the patch s outlines on the fixing piece and cut following the pre drawn shape.

Carpet patch pads are used to iron on specially made adhesive disks that activate with the help of heat. The underside of a carpet is also called the backing. Wet your carpet patch pad under water and wring out the excess. We have gas logs in our great room.