Matching Existing Carpet

Even if you were lucky enough to find the exact.

Matching existing carpet.

Matching the existing carpet is going to be the key that will make or break this. Even if you are able to find the exact material from the same manufacturer your existing floor will show signs of age. Take a portion of the carpet and start looking around your local home depot or other carpet place to find a close match. You will never find an exact match.

If you already have hardwood flooring in some areas of your home and are looking to add more trying to match the two surfaces is next to impossible. Don t try to match a new blue carpet in the bedroom to the old blue carpet in the den. A brand new carpet simply won t have the same abuse. All you have to do it remodel the existing carpet so that it accommodates the transition strip.

Carpet patching is a simple system of carefully cutting out the damaged area and replacing it with a patch of donor carpet of the same size. Because the donor area is filled in either with a piece of remnant carpet or is left unrepaired carpet patching is considered to be imperfect but a net overall improvement. Cut the edge of the carpet so that it reaches the edge of the tile perfectly. You current carpet is partially worn and dirty and possibly faded from the sun previous cleaning.

I wouldn t opt for carpet squares right away as these aren t usually the same pile and look as residential rolled carpet. You will likely never get an exact match. First thing is the existing water service doesn t have shut offs so i run to the store once to pick up some new shark bite service connections. As a rule of thumb make sure to install the tack strip for the carpet about 1 4 to 3 8 inches from the edge of the tile.