This is in addition to you using an actual commercial glue seam strip intended for the application.
Can i use a clothes iron to seam carpet.
She also had a lot of experience installing carpet.
When you install the cold seam tape you can just put it in there without any special tools needed or even ironing and it is just as good if not better than the heated carpet seam tape.
Before you can actually use the carpet seam iron you need to make sure that the seam is ready.
If you re attempting to install carpet in your home and don t have a carpet seam iron you can use a regular clothing iron in a pinch.
The carpet stuck well but and she used my mothers iron which was still fine when she got through.
Overlap two pieces of carpet by a few inches.
When you are using steam tape you have to use the iron to activate it which ends up becoming a mess at times.
It s shaped a little differently and isn t as heavy but it will melt the seam glue at its highest heat setting.
I would think that anything that would ruin a regular iron would also ruin a seaming iron so you would want to be careful and not get glue on anything.
This will give you a perfectly matched cut for both pieces of carpet.
If you re installing carpet in your home and don t have a carpet seam iron you can use a regular clothing iron in a pinch.