How do I fix our carpet...

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 9:17 am

Our carpet is a mess. It has lots of pet-related stains, and now it has two patches, about 3 inches in diameter, where the actual carpet material, the little fluffies which make carpet so easy on the tootsies, has been eaten away. Also pet-related.

Is there anything to be done other than replace the carpet, and possibly replace the pets?

Is there such thing as "carpet repair"?

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 1:02 pm

There is no turning back, unless you have some leftover scraps and enough of a pile to make them blend together. Then you could carefully cut out the disturbing parts and kinda patch it together. Anything else is just replacement.

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ChainGangGuy · Post by **ChainGangGuy** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 1:40 pm

Is there any chance the furniture could be cleverly rearranged to cover-up or at least minimize the appearance of these eaten away patches and soiled spots?

Less Fung Shui and more Dung Shui, Pinner!

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 6:31 pm

What I've heard is that you are meant to save a section of carpet from when it is originally installed, so you can then cut a piece to form and install it where it needs to be installed should accidents happen. I need to do this upstairs, as a heat lamp fell onto carpet at one point, scorching said carpet.

(But yeah, I moved the room around so a bed is on top of it at the moment.)

This is not a solution that helps you, since you can't move a bed where you specifically need it moved.

A former manager of mine from the NatSemi days left the industry to start a carpet store, however. I would be happy to give you his website URL.

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 8:35 pm

So this is as good a time as any to tell this story.

One day in our old house, my wife lit a candle and put it on the coffee table. I was sitting on the couch with my feet resting on the edge of the table. I was wearing socks. Out of the blue, my wife says, "OOOOOH NO, don't even THINK about it!" Then I said "What are you talking about?" and she said, "you were thinking about setting your sock on fire."

Now to be 100% honest the thought had NEVER even crossed my mind until after she said it. Then I was like, "well shit, maybe that would be super awesome or something, why else would SHE have thought of it?" So when she wasn't looking I scooted my sock mostly off the end of my foot and put it in the candle. All of a sudden -- WOOSH! Yeah buddy, foot funk burns real good.

So all of a sudden I start yelling "MY BISCUITS ARE BURNIN" like Yosemite Sam and my wife is calling me a dumb ass and yelling at me. So I flick the sock off and it lands on the carpet and starts burning. So THEN I grabbed one of the couch pillows and squashed the teeny-tiny flame, but not before leaving a burn mark on both the carpet and the couch. The carpet was repaired as described above -- we cut a small square out and replaced it with another small patch (I think we got it from a closet corner). The pillow was always burned which pissed my wife off to no end because we just bought the couch and the pillows matched.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 1:21 pm

Don't you hate it when good ideas go bad!

That was funny as hell! Still laughing!

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