MadMac

Seriously I am never doing DIY again, I always manage to make things about 10 times worse

Was using a heat gun to strip some paint off a door frame and I dropped the fucking thing on the carpet long enough for it to melt about 4 square inches off the carpet. Its only been down 4 months

I have plenty of the original off cuts of the carpet to fix it, but anyone got any advice on getting it as seamless as possible?

boothy

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Claim on the insurance if you have it ?

RichieST

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When my mum and dad had a new carpet fitted, the room was bigger than the width of the carpet, the fitter kind of melted the sections together so they made a seamless join, was totally un-noticeable. So I should imagine it can be repaired!

longdog

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Get a rug. I did the same with an iron years ago, I never did get it looking right.
Hope you have better luck.

boothy

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Yep fair enough ,but do you think he could do it without fuckin up the whole room

MadMac

No I could not

I have had a go at replacing bit of it, one part looks seamless, but the join on one side isn't. Good thing I have plenty of this carpet to butcher to replace it.

Cant put a rug down as its in along the skirting board next to a door that opens outwards.

RichieST

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Nope, hence I mentioned a carpet fitter did it, I suggest he does the same

Charlie Chalk

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Got a picture of the burn mark?

Jessica.

how unfortunate. has the missus seen it yet?

MadMac

No, ya cnut I have already chopped it out and put it in the bin!

Yes, and she aint happy with me

J98 FYA

as long as the pile is long enough u can get away with removing the section an replacing make sure u get the it the right way round so it goes the same way like the grain of the carpet hard to explain but when u smoove the carpet it ahhhhh bollocks to hard to explain just burn the fucker down lol

Charlie Chalk

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Why would you chop it out before you know what you was doing with it LOL

Jessica.

thats mens logic for ya no doubt the missus will make you get a whole new carpet if you dont fix it perfectly

Charlie Chalk

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Not mans logic, I'm male.. Stu just lacks common sense I think

slimboyfat

Just move some furniture over and tell her in draws the the room looks mutch bigger like that and hope she agrees otherwise ur fukd

matts1

longish pile will mean the fibres around the joins will blend, you need a carpet fitter to sort it really, use proper joing tape that they heat up.

The pile has a direction and so needs to be the right way around, one way brushes the pile up, one way down.

Personally I would make a claim, but if not get the shop that fitted it to send a fitter out Ł20-30 and it should be pretty hard to spot if done well.

Does depend on the carpet though as to the results you will get.

mrjenrst

getting it perfect will be hard tbh, also depends on what shape you cut out.

Charlie Chalk

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I wanna see a pic

24vcossiemat

lol at this thread.. i've done the same thing with a heat gun an the misses called me every friggin name you can think of.. 800 quid we paid for it.. luckily the contents insurance sorted it though

foreigneRS

is it like wallpaper or turf where you lay an oversize bit on and then cut through both at the same time to get a perfect join?

matts1

if it is hessian backed then I would cut an exact square from the back using a tempate, then use the same template and cut the back of the carpet.

Then put it in the correct way round (and up lol), but honestly, get a fitter to do it, aint wort the hassle, you may end up with a 6'square after having a go, oops, having a another go, oops

Charlie Chalk

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Sounds like he's thrown the template away...

mrjenrst

Sort of yeah, but the main problem is where it is ie main traffic and the bit or shape he's cut out, a picture would make it easyer to laugh at... Sorry i ment see the problem