Carpet Repair

In the past, carpet repair was the domain of the carpet installer who would – for a fee – come to your house and proceed to patch, re-stretch and color match your carpet. Today, it often falls to the professional carpet cleaner/repair person to do this job, since most installers will not come back to your home for minor repairs, unless they are warranty work. Yet did you know that to repair carpet, it just takes a bit of know how, a few tools you probably already have, and perhaps a few do it yourself carpet repair instructions, and you are on your way!

Yes, Berber carpet repair is possible on a do it yourselfer’s budget; as a matter of fact, repairing Berber carpet is considered to be one of the easier carpet repair jobs you are prone to encounter! While the Bissell carpet cleaner repair manual has a few tips in it – although for obvious reasons it is geared to answered carpet cleaning machine repairs questions – here are some tips you might not have found!

Repair burns or holes in carpets by carefully cutting of the burned tips of carpet fibers. This requires a steady hand, patience, and perhaps a magnifying glass as well as good quality scissors. If the burn is bigger or deeper, you will need to insert a replacement plug into the burnt area. Use a carpet repair kit circle blade for this task.

Indented areas resulting from months or even years of having furniture placed on them may be resurrected by ironing the carpet with a club soda filled steam iron. Going over these areas slowly will permit for the carpet fibers to once again rise. Some carpet cleaning repair kits offer suggestions about what to do when a new carpet sheds. Interestingly, this is not a carpet repair problem, since there really is nothing wrong with the carpet. Instead, it is a natural consequence of having extra fibers from the factory still in the completed carpet. With proper vacuuming, this excess will be cleaned up.

Carpet repair that requires re-stretching of the entire carpet is best done by a professional, since rarely only one room is affected, and since some carpet repair may need to be made to the boards holding the carpet in place. While a do-it-yourselfer may be able to accomplish this feat if she or he is knowledgeable enough and has the right tools, for the average amateur this might be too big of a job to do on their own.