How Do You Make A Carpet Seam?
This article is about connecting two pieces of carpet together without being able to see them. place the two pieces of carpet edges next to each other, making sure the nap weave is lying in the same direction. Fold one of the edges back with bottom side up. Take chalkline and pop a line near the edge. Make sure carpet is flat when you make an even cut along line using the straightedge. Take the piece of carpet with even edge just cut and fold back over on top of piece not yet trimmed. Place slide knife against trimmed edge and slide from one end to other keeping it next to trimmed edge causing piece underneath to be trimmed off perfectly even with top piece. Reove trimmed piece from under top piece. Take a piece of seaming tape the length of the two pieces and place it underneath. The seaming tape has a center line that will put equal amounts under each carpet piece. Plug in seaming iron and wait until it heats up. Starting at one end fold back both edges and place hot seaming iron of
