[the red carpet]

What are these marks i keep coming across were people have had plant pots?

They are so hard to do anything with, and half the time seem to have eaten away at the carpet a bit like rust can do at times.

[John Kelly]

They are caused by people using unglazed plant pot saucers. Basically causing the carpet underneath to become damp everytime the plant is watered. Carpet ends up with mould/fungal growth which eats away the fibres especially wool. Not a lot you can do with it. Advise customer and treat with product to kill mould.
Hard to believe that insurance companies still pay out on this.

[woodman]

They don't

No considered willfull damage, by most anyway.

[Steve Chapman]

i normally find a few treatments of hydrogen peroxide will lighten the brown areas on light coloured carpets and make the appearance more acceptable

It just takes a bit of time
regards
steve

[Michel Roberts]

On the fitting side I usually do 2/3 of these a month.

The ones I get called to look at are way beyond cleaning, bonded insert being the only option, if the custi has any spare.

 Jute backed tufteds or wovens with a cotton chain warp are by far the worst as the backing disintigrates further than the face fiber as the moisture spreads out sideways underneath, requiring a bigger patch than you might expect.

With more action backed coming on stream I would expect this to reduce over time.

Usually I heat seam 3 sides and use scrim tape and a hot melt glue gun on the forth.

Half of them look crap, to me the other half ok though the custi's seem happy enough.


For some time I have been thinking about importing one of the new coolglide seaming irons from the US which uses microwaves to melt the adhesive through the face fiber  rather than a traditional seaming iron which goes between the tape and the carpet backing.

These new seaming irons would be perfect for this type of repair as there would be no problem with iron runout

I don t think anyones got one here yet so I would be the first in the UK