Carpet Seams Visible

Carpet seams showing is often the difference between and ordinary carpet installation and a masterpiece.

Carpet seams visible.

Unlevel seams in the carpet. For a seam tape fix pull back the two loose pieces of carpet and remove the old seam tape. They should never have gaps or overlays. The backing of your carpet will be attached to the seam tape and stretching during installation can pull the points where the tape is attached tight enough to cause the top section of the carpet to peak upwards.

Peaking can cause seams that are visible but not a seam that is inferior. Sunlight will flow over seams that run toward windows minimizing their visibility but will highlight or accentuate any valleys between carpet sections that run perpendicular to windows. They are even more visible when you know where they are. Berber carpets should be cut lengthwise along the bias.

Add a seam sealer material around the backing area or the floor base. Essentially this is a temporary issue caused by stretching. Place the new seam tape between the two pieces of carpet and heat the tape with your steaming iron. Seams are visible when they are used to install your carpeting.

An acceptable seam should have the carpet backings flush with one another. In fact it is advisable for the sales person to tell the consumer in advance of the installation that the seams cannot be guaranteed invisible. Wide gaps and overlaps. Failure to match any patterning in the carpet.

A seam should have the carpet backings flush to each other without gaps and without overlaps. Step 2 select the same carpet for all adjoining rooms. Open the area around the carpet that the seam is located at. Gaps are left at the end of the seams.

This video will help explain what causes seam peaking. While invisible carpet seams are not always possible it is the goal of many great installers to construct invisible seams. While this is an admirable goal invisible seams should never be promised. We do not fix seam peaking because there is nothing to fix.

Cross seams on berbers should be avoided if reasonable. Do not apply too much as you only want to cover the spot that the seam itself is located at. Wait for several hours before removing the weights or walking on the carpet. Place the new seam tape between the two pieces of carpet and heat the tape with your steaming iron.

Failure to explain in advance where the seams will be. Carpet seaming is done in more obvious spots. Press the seams together onto the hot tape and run the iron over the carpet and seam tape below. Install carpet strips so that they run toward the room s windows rather than perpendicular to them.

Seam peaking in carpets is not caused by poor quality materials or poor workmanship. Press the seams together onto the hot tape and run the iron over the carpet and seam tape below. Seams are visible especially when you know where they are. Failure to explain why a carpet seam is not guaranteed to be invisible.

Make sure the seam sealer moves into the raw edges of the carpet as you get the surface sealed up right.