Carpet Head Seam

The key to a tight fitting professional looking seam is to start with a double cutting technique that matches the two edges perfectly.

Carpet head seam.

Unseasoned carpet and flooring installers typically forget this or simply don t know how to handle seams resulting in the following. A seam should have the carpet backings flush to each other without gaps and without overlaps. If an installer has addressed these concerns then that is the best seam that can be made. Carpet seams showing lines that are very close together located on both sides of the seam and about the width of the seaming tape are usually from the teeth of a spur roller that was used by the installer.

Seaming carpet like a pro requires precise cuts and proper seaming technique using heat activated carpet seaming tape and a seaming iron. Cross seams on berbers should be avoided if reasonable. Berber carpets should be cut lengthwise along the bias. This claim develops when the installer uses a spur roller on a dense cut pile carpet and the warm yarn is reset.

Seam peaking you might not have heard of it and you probably aren t even familiar with carpet seams.