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Cigarette burn in carpet

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  • 23-02-2004 10:21pm
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    SuprSi
    Registered Users Posts: 6,939 ✭✭✭


    Not sure if I should have this thread here, but it's a DIY job I've gotta do so maybe it is. Anyway, myself and my flatmate had a small gathering in the apartment over the weekend and somebody burned a half-centimetre hole in the carpet. Well, maybe not a hole, but it's burned the colour out of it.

    Does anyone know if there's a way of fixing that? I know I could just cut tufts off some bit in the corner and glue them in, but that's not going to last.

    Cheers,

    Si.


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    fre
    Registered Users Posts: 44 ✭fre


    You can't really fix it perfectly.

    You can excise a section of the carpet and use a new peice glued in properly will look ok, but if it's an old or discoloured a new peice will stick out.

    Move the furniture over it maybe??


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    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,313 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Try getting the carpet laundered professisonally.

    On the cheap, use detergent and a stiff nail brush.


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    SuprSi
    Registered Users Posts: 6,939 ✭✭✭SuprSi


    We had a guy in yesterday and he did a great job - the hole is looking a lot less like a hole at the moment. We'll still need to do something to hide it completely, but it's definitely better than it was.

    Cheers!


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    fatherdougalmag
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    We did a job with some nail varnish once! Fortunately, the carpet colour was sort of nail varnish coloured so it was a matter of picking the right shade. We found that we had to apply some bonding-like stuff first because the carpet soaked the nail varnish up. Did the trick! Until we got the carpet cleaned :(


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