No matter how skilled your installer is, every carpet fitting ends up with scraps to be dealt with. At our carpet stores in Melbourne, we are keen to reduce our environmental impact as much as possible. So, to reduce the effect of cheap carpet flooring on the environment, here are Complete Carpet Co’s top ten uses for leftover carpet.
In The Garden
- Got a weedy patch you just can’t get on top of? Cover it with old carpet, pop some plants in pots on top and forget about it for a few years. Remove the carpet later and the weeds will have died, leaving you with a fresh patch of earth to plant up. Small scraps also work brilliantly to put around large plants as a weed barrier, for example at the base of trees.
- Another green-fingered use for carpet scraps is as a lid for your compost heap. Once your heap is full, give it a fork over, cap it with a square of carpet and forget about if for six months. The carpet helps to keep light out and heat and moisture in.
- Before we leave the garden and head indoors, small scraps of carpet can be folded over to make great kneeling pads for weeding.
Around The House
- Keep a bag of carpet scraps to hand for moving heavy objects. Slide the scrap underneath the legs of furniture, pile side down, and then glide them effortlessly across the floor.
- To protect hard floors, use a craft knife or box cutter to cut scraps to size and stick to the underside of chair legs and furniture feet. This will avoid scrapes and scuffs on your floors and reduce the noise when they move.
- If you have a pet, wrap a piece of wood with carpet to make an instant scratching post. It might even deter kitty from destroying your brand new discount carpets and rugs from Complete Carpet Co!
- A small scrap of carpet is a decorator’s friend. Any DIY that involves scrapers and gunk is made cleaner and quicker if you have carpet off-cuts to use for wiping excess putty, paint or filler off your tools.
In The Garage
- If your car is a tight fit in your garage, attach a long strip of carpet to the garage wall where you open your car door to make an instant bumper strip.
- Keep a square of carpet in your car boot for muddy or icy conditions. Wedge the carpet under the front edge of the stuck wheel and it will provide traction where there was none before.
- Small off cuts of carpet make great windscreen cleaners. The pile is long enough to scrub away dried on gunk but soft enough to avoid scratching the glass.
Not just great uses for carpet off-cuts, these are also great ways to use the old carpet you have pulled up to make way for brand new flooring. Call into a Complete Carpet Co store today to look at the great deals we have on offer so that you can put that tired old carpet to work!
