Home Brewed Carpet

When my project was finally ready for its new carpet I began doing my homework to see who in my area would be willing to fabricate one for me. The floor is totally flat except for a slight hump so I thought that this would be fairly easy and cheap. After checking with a couple of upholstery shops in my area I began to think that I would have to take out a second mortgage to get the job done. That’s when I decided to try to do it myself. I ordered some carpet on line from one of the places that sells it by the yard .I fabricated a template out of cardboard to the shape of the floor area and used it to cut the carpet to size. Now came the major problem……HOW TO BIND THE CARPET. I tried a number to techniques with sewing fabric binding and failed miserably. I was about to give up when my wife told me that she had found a product on the internet that claimed that their process would allow you to easily bind any carpet with professional looking results. After reading a lot of positive reviews I decided to give it a try. It proved to be very easy to work with and the results on my opinion look great. It was so easy if fact that I decided to do the trunk. The product is Instabind and is sold for about a dollar a foot. Has anyone else used this or any other product to fabricate their own carpet? If so, let’s see the results.

 

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But it looks cool,
nice job

 

Geez that looks nice. How about some more information about the product and more pictures please.

 

I never heard of it before, but it looks great. Nice job!

 

This is the manufactures web site. Some other carpet suppliers also have it by the foot.
http://www.instabind.com/

 

Yeah. where'd you get the stuff? Sounds like it is the trick for do it yourself guys like me.

 

Did you order it, or pick it up somewhere. Its hard to tell what the colors really are on their chart. Im very interested in trying it out. Looks great, and this would allow me to do my own carpet job.

 

i like it!

 

So is it a super sticky adhesive, a pressure sensitive adhesive, iron on or what. It is hard to tell from the website. Inform us oh wise one, inquiring minds want to know.

 

There is a video on their site. Its informative.

 

themoose,
Nice job, it looks like a clean installation. Thanks for sharing a solution.

 

very nice......took 2-minutes to look down it .
interesting. Nice job too.

 

I watched the video, that stuff is amazing.

 

Cool stuff. Thanks for the info.

 

I wonder if you could use piping, double sided tape and the hot glue if you wanted a vinyl edge?

 

You can get instabond by the foot and other carpet stuff here:
http://www.installersstore.com/cgi-bin/INSstore.pl?user_action=list&category=Instabind%20Carpet%20Binding%3BRegular%20Carpet%20Binding

 

Old thread but some good stuff.

 

Thanks for the tip, I went to their ite and bookmarked it. Btw killer looking seat, very nice comfy looking interior!

 

That stuff is slick as grass thru a goose. Your finished product looks very good. Cheaper than getting it overlocked.

 

Moose, ........ how is the edging holding up?

 

Still looks like the day I finished it over 3 years later. You couldn't lift an edge if you wanted to...I'm really satisfied.

 

Moose - took your recommendation, and I have mine. Now I just need to get the carpet and get it finished! Can't wait!

 

I remember you talking about this and glad to see it has held up well.

Here is the video of the product. HRP

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Just spoke to a carpet shop and they want $13.50 linear ft. to bind auto carpet. Was going to go with that till I saw this thread! Thanks themoose.

 

I am going to check this out too.

 

Is That Naugahyde binding what they call acrylic??

 

Neat stuff, but could they make the video a little more blurry? Looks like 70's home movies. Will give the stuff a try for sure.

 

I wish I had heard about this before now,I will have to look into some on my next carpet installation.

 

No it's what the call "Cotton Serge" which is a heavy cloth material wrapped around a core. I liked the looks of it so that's what I used although they do offer a number of different options.

I got the heel pad online from one of the carpet suppliers although I don't remember exactly which supplier it was. I sewed it on by hand by using a heavy needle and pre punched the holes in the vinyl pad and then hand stitched it to the carpet using heavy matching cotton thread. I took a little effort to get the needle through the material and pad even with the holes pre punched but it's doable and the result looks factory. It's now five years old and still looks as good as the day it was finished. I'm totally satisfied with the product.

 

Great info . Thanks for posting up the info (and the recent update) . Your interior looks great , BTW .