Cutting Carpet Corners

Ensuring proper coverage without unsightly wrinkles and tucks on corners presents a special challenge.

Cutting carpet corners. Cutting carpet is one of those sweaty palms and nervous shakes kind of a deal but if you are able to take the carpet off in one piece you ll quickly be happy. Trim the excess carpet around the wall with a carpet cutter. Cutting corners with national security is unacceptable. The process differs slightly depending upon whether the corner is an inside corner or an outside corner.

Continue to press the instabind around your carpet as closely as you can. Don t jam the blade into the carpet too deeply. Reupholster a chair cutting the fabric corners carefully. To prep the corner pull the carpet in a manner similar to the image below.

Our homefit service will no longer be available from the 9 july 2018. Then use a razor knife and cut it at the angle of the curve. Any existing orders will be honoured until 14 december 2018. Instabind carpet binding instructions regular binding cut a little portion from the beginning point of your instabind to have a fresh start from the middle of your carpet.

Then press down just enough to pierce the carpet s tough backing. The next step is to press the middle portion of the crease down onto the corner. Point the blade downward and touch the tip to your starting point on the carpet. After proper cure time i carefully sit the lid on the carpet lined up with the first set of marks i made around the lid itself and press it down.

Use a tool to push the carpet tight into corner. Slowly pull the sticker off it while going forward. I cut a square notch from each corner just don t cut all the way to the lid stop at least an 1 4 from the lid or you will leave the metal corner exposed when you fold it around the edges. Once the middle portion is pressed fold the flaps to ensure the carpet is adhered to the wood.

Make a small cut starting at one corner for the cutter to latch onto the carpet and then slide the cutter between the tack strips and.