How to Make a Carpet Seam

This article is about connecting two pieces of carpet together without being able to see them.

Difficulty: Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• slide knife, straight edge,seaming iron, seaming tape. 10# weight on short flat board, chalkline and carpet knife.

1. place the two pieces of carpet edges next to each other, making sure the nap weave is lying in the same direction.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Plug in seaming iron and wait until it heats up.

6. Starting at one end fold back both edges and place hot seaming iron of top of seaming tape keeping tape centered. Start sliding iron slowly down tape. As iron melts seaming glue take both edges of carpet behind the seaming iron and place them togetheras you slide it forward.

7. Making sure that edges are touching together evenly place board with 10 pound wieght on top to hold seam together untill seaming glue cools and sets.

Tips & Warnings

• Be careful when removing the seaming iron at opposite end so as not to get melted seaming glue on carpet.