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Recently I had a plastic bottle leak into my carpet over a day or two (I didn't know that it had a leak). Only noticed it due to the musty smell that started stinking out the room. Thinking that it probably had got to the underlay I cut a T shaped opening in the carpet and, of course, the underlay was also wet. Thankfully not a huge amount of water leaked, maybe the equivalent of two or three mugs, but it was wet enough. Now that I've cut the carpet open, kept it lifted up with some jammed in plastic bottle tops and kept it open, it's drying out nicely, helped at times by a hairdryer.
The cuts aren't huge - the bar of the 'T' is about 14 inches across, the vertical bar of the 'T' is about 8 inches long.
Now my question - what is the best way to stick the carpet back down? It's an old carpet in an untidy room so the job doesn't need to look great. I was thinking of using some single or double sided carpet tape placed underneath and overlapping the cuts, them pushing it back down.
Or is there a better method?
Thanks
The cuts aren't huge - the bar of the 'T' is about 14 inches across, the vertical bar of the 'T' is about 8 inches long.
Now my question - what is the best way to stick the carpet back down? It's an old carpet in an untidy room so the job doesn't need to look great. I was thinking of using some single or double sided carpet tape placed underneath and overlapping the cuts, them pushing it back down.
Or is there a better method?
Thanks