Avoid the expense of paying a binder to finish the job. Make your own with decorative upholstery cord and use it to finish frayed area rugs or transform carpet remnants into professional-looking floor coverings.
Faux Suede carpet binding tape for stair runners and rugs.
free collection and delivery service at a time that suits you within a 30 minutes distance of Walsall, Burntwood Stafford, Staffordshire, Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Lichfield, Rugeley, Sutton Coldfield and West Midlands. Place the carpet on the floor face up and sit down on top of the carpet facing the middle of an outer edge (not a corner). Alex Burke holds a degree in environmental design and a Master of Arts in information management. DIY carpet tape adds a professional finish to rugs that lack binding. Push the two ends together and hold a few seconds so the glue binds them completely.
Instant carpet binding tapes are an easy, fast and permanent solution to binding carpet with no sewing necessary.
Using the unbound carpet edge as a guide, snip the tape up to the piping. This binding product is adjustable until the final step, where the glue will permanently attach it to the rug.
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Carefully peel up the backing along the side closest to you, folding it over to expose one long edge of adhesive about the same width as the upholstery trim. Easybind is currently available from around £5.25 per linear meter. Lay the tape horizontally on a flat surface. Avoid the expense of paying a binder to finish the job. You can bind carpet in minutes with Instabind and a glue gun. Line up the left end of the roll of trim with the left end of the exposed adhesive. Use the exposed edge as the marker or guide for where to snip the binding off the roll. You can cut your waste and be more sustainable by using up all those carpet off-cuts you kept. Instabind™ Faux leather style carpet binding mimics standard or traditional binding but without showing any stitching. The piping will form a curved edge around each corner and hide the pointed rug corner within its folds. Return to the starting point with the piping and tape still connected on one end to the larger roll of binding product. Binding the raw edges of area rugs and carpet scraps is a snap with do-it-yourself carpet binding tape. Work on a hard floor surface like concrete or vinyl tile to adhere the tape easily. Remove a foot of protective backing from the loose tape and lift up the carpet. Once you discover there is such a product as carpet edge binding, it is easy to get hooked.
Adhere the two ends with a drop of hot glue placed between them.
Press the carpet to the floor to adhere the tape and continue attaching the instant binding around the carpet until all edges are covered. For deliveries elsewhere please email us for a quote.
Press the cord against the rug as you work; for long sections, a scrap piece of lumber pushed against the cording streamlines the process. Carpet tape with decorative cord trim along one edge is readily available premade, but the limited availability of colors and styles doesn't always work with the endless array of patterns and colors present in carpet. Cut a wide piece of carpet tape and flat-back upholstery cord this length. Adhesive carpet binding tape. If you have double-sided carpet tape on hand, leave the backing on one side and use as if it were single-sided tape.
As I say, once you know about carpet edge binding, there’s no looking back! Rug binding doesn’t sound particularly glamorous, especially if all you have ever seen is overlocking stitch, similar to the samples you see in carpet shops. A quick measure up of the external dimension of your rug will give you the total cost.