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Any Ideas On How To Care For A Carpet After It Gets Burned?
I accidently burned my carpet with iron and now there’s a discolored spot on it. Is there anything to bring it back to normal?
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5:52 am on November 13th, 2009
I think you are out of luck with bringing perfection back to your carpet. Hopefully it is in a spot where you can set something over it but I somehow don’t think this is the case since you asked the question. Last resort… do you have insurance?
11:25 am on November 13th, 2009
Replace it
12:18 pm on November 13th, 2009
if you can’t find a piece of replacement carpet , go to a unused or infrequently used (small) closet with the same kind of carpet and cut out a square from the back corner. Either swap out the squares or just redo the closet floor.
2:42 pm on November 13th, 2009
i hope its not a berber. if so you’ll need a pro to do the repair. it’ll cost you a service call. if a plush then i’d still recommend a pro, they can come in and pull the carpet back and hot melt the replacement piece into place. depending on age and location to windows the spot repaired will probably be noticeable( placing a practically unused patch in the middle of a traffic area will stick out like a sore thumb) if the person you hire is as good as i am,you wont notice any seams,just whatever fade there is from the sun or dirt and traffic wear if they are good enough w/ their tools they can blend the patch piece w/ the old. the other option how old is the carpet? you may want to turn it into your insurance co. (depending on which co. your w/ they may not even send out an adjuster, just tell you to get a couple of estimates and submit them). the insurance co. will replace all carpet that is attached to that room providing all rooms are the same color. they may prorate it on age and you may have to pay the difference. but you get a house of new carpet for a fraction of the cost.
8:49 pm on November 13th, 2009
Once the carpet is burned there is no way to restore it. You’ll have to replace that section of carpet.Do you have any leftover carpet remnants or maybe the inside of a closet that isn’t seen? Cut out the burned section. Use this for a pattern to cut out a piece of the remnant. Apply a strong carpet tape to the back of the replacement piece and insert in the hole, pressing down as hard as possible. Fluff the carpet where the edges meet. Should do the trick. NOTE: When you cut the replacement piece, cut ONLY the backing, not the carpet yarns. Pull the pieces apart.
9:31 pm on November 13th, 2009
cover the space w a carpet square-you can buy them cheap at Big Lots
11:07 pm on November 13th, 2009
cut the spot out and replace it with what u already have. if don’t want to do that replace it.
2:47 am on November 14th, 2009
Not likely, but in your closet in the very back, or somewhere that is never noticed, take a razor blade and cut out that amount of carpet, use a strong carpet glue and patch that sucker up!. It’s the cheaper way to avoid replacing the carpet. Or you could try matching the carpet at a carpet place, but it’s not likely they’ll cut a square out for you. If it’s an apt, you can ask maintainence for a piece of carpet.
8:25 am on November 14th, 2009
Any repairs are going to show. Recommend rearranging your furniture to cover it, or put the iron back over the spot. How about a throw rug.