I’m in the process of moving out of an apartment, but there are some small spots (about 6"x3") where our dog has messed up the carpet by pulling it up at the seams. These spots are only on the corners or wall where two pieces mesh together. Has anyone had any experience replacing sections of carpet like this? Could someone who has never done it before repair the carpet well enough that management would not know? Thanks.
I have had impossible to remove big stains on my carpet (Hawaiian Punch. The red dye in this is close in chemical composition as the dye in the carpet, so it becomes virtually a permanent stain). The solution I have used is to cut a piece of the same carpet from a hidden part in my closet, cut out the same size piece on the bad carpet, and replace it. After some foot traffic you can’t see the seams. Just like you cannot see the seams where other pieces of carpet are meshed together (the carpet in a house is virtually never one big continuous piece, it is a few smaller pieces tacked down to blend with each other).
Not sure if this is an option for you, since a missing piece of carpet would alert the apartment. You might want to take a small sample of the carpet to a carpet store and get a piece that matches as best as possible…then cut and replace.
Another possiblility. Find the head maintenance person at the apartment complex, slip him a few bucks and I am guessing he has access to extra pieces of the same carpet in your apartment and can either give you some or can even do the cut and replace. Better for him only to know about it and you pay him a few bucks than for the apartment to charge you a huge fee.
Good luck.
Thanks for the info. I think I am going to try it. Hopefully I will be able to find a piece that is a good match. It looks pretty easy from what I have read online, but everything usually does until you are past the point of return.
I just finished patching a carpet, and it looks awful. I’m a pretty good handy-man, but this project was a failure.
When we were having carpet put down in our hall, my wife and I cocked up the measurements, and were short widthwise by 2 inches in a doorway. The fitter took an offcut and joined it in the doorway region - the result is perfect and you cannot see the join at all.
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I think one of the major concerns is making sure the “nap” of the carpet is going the same way - it will blend better.
One item – most carpet has a ‘grain’, just like wood or paper. Your patch has to have the grain running the same way as the original to blend in. (And even then, it sometimes won’t.)