I'm no "expert" carpet fitter but I have successfully joined carpet with a cheap stanley knife & a 3ft steel rule.Make sure when laying both pieces that the pile runs in the same direction.If you overlap the edges & cut through BOTH pieces together moving the rule or whatever straight edge you decide to use.When you remove the offcuts from both pieces the edges will match perfectly.Spray carpet adhesive on the floor underneath the overlap & smooth down.Job done!Rhbeen said:How do you join 2 pieces of the same carpet together and maked it look like one piece of carpet?
All I can say is I must have been lucky with the adhesive.It never did fray & lasted 4 different tenants over 2 years.The only reason for replacement was an iron burn right in the middle.Why can't people buy ironing boards,this has happened so often!breezer said:untill it frays
Why is it funny & why shouldn't he/she try it? As I said mine lasted for two years not ten minutes.The carpet was felt backed at 4.99 a metre.Yes probably "pennies" compared to others but did you ask the OP what they were using in your answer?Makes a difference.mattysupra said:how funny. Dont try this! it wont last ten minutes. Unless your paying pennys for the carpet. Then it dont really matter. You can just change carpet ever couple of months.
mattysupra said:like i said if they paying pennys it dont matter if it dont last. But as a qualified witness supplying reports in the flooring trade to court cases etc, maybe you should give it a thought that if you rent out property, and if one of your joins you have preformed does fail causing someone to trip and hurt them selfs in your property, well who they going to make a large claim against? The floor layer for not doing it to british standard? Dont want to sound like im having ago but we all know that every one trying to rip every one off for a penny or two! You become an easy target. specially if someone breaks there leg outside in a park or something and then goes to his solicitor and says it happens at his rented property whos flooring wasn't fitted to british standard. I see this all the time. But unless you can prove it no fault of your own, well lets see how deep your pocket is.
First of all,no I don't think that.Hope you can see where i am coming from and dont want you to think im having ago at you
This was the point,you didn't give false advice.You didn't give any constructive advice.All im trying to say is that as a profesional i cant give someone false advise
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