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Repairing Of Wall-To-Wall Carpet
As an adjunct to its over-all consumer services, the average wellstaffed workroom will also handle a considerable amount of carpet repairs. The reason for this is that such repair work not only maintains customer satisfaction—encouraging future sales—but also it may often be an important factor in helping close a sale of new carpet. Frequently a housewife buying new carpet for the living room or dining room will have her old carpet or rugs repaired and reshaped for use in a less-trafficked area, such as a bedroom.
Another important reason for providing a repair service is the increasingly widespread retail practice of accepting used carpets as a trade-in on new goods. A small percentage of carpet stores have their own cleaning plant, where used carpets can be both cleaned and repaired for resale. The large bulk of stores that do not have their own cleaning facilities will frequently arrange with a local rug cleaning firm to repair and clean the used rug or carpet, which the cleaning firm may then dispose of themselves or return to the store for resale.
Those stores that prefer to handle the used carpets themselves, however, might find it very economical to do their own repairing and then have the carpet cleaned. More and more stores are finding this practice very profitable, both in helping stimulate sales of new merchandise and in developing sales of used goods for those customers unable to afford new carpet.
The well-equipped carpet workroom will generally have all of the tools, materials, and facilities necessary for doing most repair work. Machinery for serging, binding and stitching new carpet can be adapted for use in similar repair operations.
Many workrooms, however, may lack the necessary yarns for burling, or for replacement of missing or damaged tufts. Different qualities and colors of yarn may be obtained, in most cases, from a local supply house or from the mills themselves. A number of mills have available a quantity of yarn from their various lines for this purpose. Where extra yarn is not available, or the match not quite right, the necessary yarns can be "stolen"' from another part of the rug or carpet where their absence won't be noticed, and sewn into the damaged area.
HOW TO MAKE COMMON RUG REPAIRS
Before attempting to perform any of the more intricate types of repairs, such as renapping or retufting holes, burns, and worn spots, it is well to review the construction of the various types of carpet on the market, as described on pages 17-23.
