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Types of Carpet Repair

Author: Lora Davis
by Lora Davis
Posted: Feb 27, 2016

We all love the soft, cozy, luxurious feeling of having a plush carpet under your feet; carpet installation Alpharetta provides your home with a comfortable perch and if you have kids and elderly relatives in your home, it can even reduce the risk of injury during a fall. However, carpets will definitely require a great deal of care and maintenance when compared to other types of flooring materials such as tiles or vinyl. Every once in a while, you may have to do some repairs; even though you could easily do carpet repair on your own, this is not normally a very good bet.

Carpet repair professionals are good at doing all types of carpet repair whether it is carpet patching or carpet stretching; their expertise will make what is actually a tedious job look like it was a simple task. If you insist on doing your own carpet repair as a homeowner, you can be sure that you will definitely live with some low-quality outcomes; some of the most common types of carpet repair include:

Carpet stretching: If you initial carpet installation Marietta was done professionally, the issue of carpet stretching should not really arise. Correct carpet installation requires the use of correct tools such as power stretcher or a carpet stretcher; you don't want to see someone using kickers in your home because they will not do a complete job. Anytime you see carpet wrinkles, carpet ripples or a bunched up carpet, tell yourself that you need to start looking for a carpet stretching contractor.

Carpet patching: When you carpet gets a bad stain that cannot easily be removed by your typical carpet cleaning expert or maybe it has been damaged by any type of burn; there are even times when cats and dogs believe that a carpet can be good food and they start gnawing at it. The only way to do carpet repair is through what is called carpet patching. Carpet patching may look easy to a casual observer but it needs a lot of skill and expertise so that it becomes perfect and there is nothing like an overlap or a gap at the seam. Your carpet repair expert will use pieces of carpet leftovers from your original carpet installation set but if you don't have any they can pick a piece from under the closet or anywhere else that may be convenient.

Carpet seam repair: If your carpet decides to come apart at the seam, there are several ways that t can get repaired. The carpet repair expert can choose to glue it back together or alternatively, take off the old seam tape so that they can do the entire seam all over again. However, this can be quite challenging if the seam that came apart is on a Berber carpet.

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