Carpet Has Patch Underside

Dilute the colored patch with a damp towel.

Carpet has patch underside.

The carpet has been down about 8 10 years and this has just started happening. Before you lay down the solution though it s a good idea to test your carpet for colorfastness. These stains are mainly in the dinning and great room. The primary backing where the yarn is tufted into and the secondary backing which is the outer material.

It secures the tufts and gives the carpet additional strength and dimensional stability. 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. It is susceptible to damage from chemicals and heat present in the wash and dry cycles of modern appliances the constant wrinkling and smoothing from foot traffic and even exposure to ultraviolet light indoors and out.

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. Continue to color and dilute until you ve blended the color to match your carpet. You may also hear the term unitary backing which. Rubber backing is great to keep scatter rugs in place but rubber breaks down over time.

Most carpets have a double backing. 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.

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. Pick a small spot that s hidden say under the couch or sofa and hit it with a little of the. Coloring the bleached patch will likely result in a darker hue than the surrounding carpet. Or draw the patch s outlines on the fixing piece and cut following the pre drawn shape.

Use a damp towel to dilute the color and spread the pigment throughout the bleached area. Your carpet patch pad may be aluminum sided on the top and contain a previous material on the bottom. Wet the carpet patch pad. Big patches of light colored stains are appearing randomly on my carpet.

We have gas logs in our great room. Double check your measurements to cut out a patch of a decent size. The carpet is a soft gold beige color. The pad should be damp but not dripping.