How To Repair Stretched Carpet After Steam Cleaning: Step By Step Process To Fix Stretched Carpet


Step By Step Process To Fix Stretched Carpet After Steam Cleaning

The main reason for the wrinkles to appear on the recently steam cleaned carpet may be that you might have put excessive water on the carpet. Excess water causes the carpet fibers to straighten or extend and not return to their normal position. You can repair stretched carpet as soon as it dries completely with the help of a carpet power stretcher and a knee kicker. Go through the below-mentioned steps carefully in order to repair stretched carpet after steam cleaning:
  • Pry Up One Corner Of The Carpet: Move or pull apart one corner of the carpet using the tip of a putty knife in order to expose the tack strip. Take hold of the corner of the carpet and keep pulling the carpet up and off the tack strip. Keep doing this all over the entire boundary of the room, provided that you are just restretching the carpet through one or two walls. In that case, you only need to pull up the carpet adjacent to the wrinkled area.
  • Check The Padding: Now, go through the padding underneath the carpet carefully in order to check whether any of the paddings are on the tack strip or not, if the paddings are on the tack strip, then trim it off with the help of a utility knife.
  • Replace Damaged Strips: Check the tack strips in order to be sure that they are fixed securely to the floor before replacing any damaged strips. Remove the old ones with the help of a pry bar, and secure the new ones in place using the nails provided with the strips. Make sure to face the tacks toward the wall.
  • Assemble The Power Stretcher: Next, put together the power stretcher by attaching as many poles as it takes in order to expand the stretcher through the length of the room where you are working. Put, place or stand the flat end of the stretcher in opposition to the baseboard on the wall opposite where you are going to stretch the carpet. Safeguard the baseboard by sliding a piece of scrap 2-by-4 lumber betwixt the stretcher and the baseboard.
  • Adjust The Stretcher’s Setting: Put, place, or stand the stretcher’s head about 6 inches away from the wall. Adjust the stretcher’s setting in order to make sure that its teeth dig into the carpet’s base. Pull the carpet stretcher’s ratcheting arm in the direction of the base wall, which in turn helps the stretcher pull the carpeting tight. Gently push the carpet down onto the points of the tack strip in order to take hold of it. Allow the pressure to release on the stretcher.
  • Move The Stretcher Along The Wall: Proceed the stretcher nearly 18 inches through the wall. If in case there is a door on the long wall, then you need to move in that direction. Repeat the last step. Keep stretching that section of the length of the room. Move back to a spot 18 inches away from the original stretched location. Stretch the carpet through that side of the room.
  • Kick The Kneepad: Place the end of the knee kicker with the teeth nearly 6 inches away from the wall where you have already put down the carpet. Kick the kneepad, which will help the teeth of the knee kicker pull the carpeting a little bit tighter. Move the carpet down onto the tack strip. Proceed through the width of the room to put the carpet in place. Knee kick the carpet in place through one long wall as well.
  • Shorten The Stretcher: Make the power stretcher shorter for the width of the room. Put, place, or stand the end with the scrap lumber through the baseboard of the center of the wall you just knee kicked into position. Place the end of the power stretcher with the teeth in opposition to the wall you haven’t knee kicked. Extend or lengthen that piece of carpeting. Work in sections away from the center as you did with the length of the room in order to extend the width of the room.
  • Knee The Remaining Walls: Knee kick the rest of the walls of the carpet into position. Place a carpet trimmer through the baseboard. Push down on the trimmer as you proceed it forward. As you push down, tuck the carpet ends in the narrow gap betwixt the tack strips and the wall. As you proceed the trimmer forward, trim the leftover, stretched carpet. With the help of a stair tool, push, fold, or turn any remaining stray edges into the gap betwixt the tack strip and the wall.
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