Diy Carpet Repair Patch

The first thing you need to do is to measure the hole.

Diy carpet repair patch. Just grab a piece of chalk and use a ruler to outline a square or a rectangle or a circle shape around it. The basic kit available at flooring distributors and online includes a hockey puck sized carpet cutter and adhesive disks to glue the patch in place. The hardest part of this diy is to find a patch that would match your existing carpet. If no remnants can be found cut a small portion of carpet from the back of a closet or other out of the way space to provide a repair piece.

When done correctly this repair eradicates the damaged area with minimal or no evidence. 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. 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. 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.

If the patch is to be applied against a wall and the room has baseboard molding your two options are. Remnants from the installation of the carpet make the job a little easier.