Maybe you like to have a lot of burning candles in your home, or perhaps you or your family smokes in the house. In another case you may have a fireplace that may spew out some hot ash onto your floor from the crackling wood. Whatever the case may be, chances are that at some point in time a candle may fall or some cigarette ash may fall onto the carpet and cause a burn. In this event, you don’t want to have to replace the whole carpet or hire a carpet cleaning company, so here are a few suggestions for quick fixes you may want to try out.
If it is just a small spot burn, you can try to clean up the area. Get some lightweight sandpaper and work on the small area to remove the charred melted fibers. After you have ground down the area, vacuum up the debris. If the burn was small enough to be removed by this, you can stop now.
If the burned area was more damaged or the burn is still visible after sanding it off, you may want to consider replacing that small section of carpet. If this is the case, you will want to carefully cut out the affected area of carpeting with a carpet knife or equally sharp tool. To get the replacement pieces, you can either buy a small square section of carpeting from a home improvement store, or you can transplant a piece of the existing carpeting. You would want to cut it out of an existing area of carpeting that is unseen, like inside of a closet or under the couch. Once you have cut out your replacement piece, you can glue it down into its new location. The use of a hot glue gun is suggested. Make sure all of the seams have glue on them and once set in; roll over the carpeting with a carpet tractor. Let the glue dry before walking on this piece of carpet.