| I have always enjoyed carpet repairs and enjoyed | | | | with the pencil on top. Roll the pencil quickly back and |
| the easy money even more. I remember when I first | | | | forth and the paper will scoot across the carpet in |
| started doing them and I thought wow what an | | | | the direction that the carpet nap lies. Do the same |
| easy way to make money and make my carpet | | | | thing on the replacement piece from the closet. This |
| cleaning clients happy at the same time. I am going | | | | way we can make sure that the replacement piece |
| to teach you how to make simple repairs like fixing a | | | | carpet fibers lie in the same direction as the room we |
| cigarette burn or fixing a hole that your pet tore in | | | | are fixing. You might even draw an arrow on the |
| the carpet. To start we must assemble our very | | | | back of the carpet so you do not forget. Take the |
| expensive tools. A pencil, glue gun, glue sticks, | | | | carpet square that you cut out and place it on to the |
| seaming tape, a bottle of latex glue , piece of paper, | | | | backing of the replacement piece of carpet. You can |
| seaming roller and a carpet knife. You could literally | | | | now trace the outline of your carpet square on the |
| start a carpet repair business for about $20.00 to | | | | replacement pieces carpet backing. Take your carpet |
| $30.00. You can find all of these tools at your local | | | | knife and cut the piece out and place it in your hole |
| hardware store. | | | | that you created in the middle of your room.They |
| First we must have a piece of carpet to use for our | | | | should fit together very tightly. Take the carpet roller |
| replacement piece. If you do not have an extra piece | | | | and roll over the edges and watch the seams |
| of carpet, use a piece out of your closet. Pretend | | | | disappear. Now take the carpet replacement piece |
| that we have a small cigarette burn right in the | | | | out and trim off any carpet strings that are hanging. |
| middle of our room. We are going to take our carpet | | | | You should also trim off any carpet strings from your |
| knife (razor blade), and cut out the damaged piece | | | | carpet hole. Now take the bottle of latex and trace |
| of carpet. I prefer to use a straight edge and cut the | | | | the edges from both the carpet hole and the |
| burn out in a square, as straight as I can. We now | | | | replacement piece. All the carpet edges are now |
| have a square hole in the middle of the room. | | | | sealed. |
| Take the piece of paper and place it on the carpet | | | | |