Who repairs their own rugs?

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Wondered who out there cuts costs a bit and repairs their own rugs, how you go about it and is it as effective as sending them off to the rug repairer?
My mum and sisters rugs are always getting tears and it costs them £7 a go to get them fixed so thought i'd learn myself and save everyone a bit of money :)
 
I have a go sometimes - if it's a straight tear that I can stitch by hand. Have also tried to sew them with my sewing machine and got through God knows how many needles, as they always break. I've come to the conclusion that it's easier and quicker to get the repaired by a professional! :)
 
Its easy.....

There is instructions in the box! ;)
It is honestly the best £14 I have EVER spent!

All the rugs that the velcro was hanging off from last winter have been repaired in record time. My local rug fixing person would charge on average of £15 per rug for 'minor' repairs! (rugs also have to be clean as she's allegic to horses??)

The handle is big and wooden so your no using a fine needle and getting blisters.

Google sewing awl, there should be a bobbin case on the bottom of it. You'll see how it works x
 
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I repair the smaller straightforward rips and nicks myself. I use a glue gun and some pieces of old rugs.

From the old rug cut a patch about an inch bigger than the rip, wriggle it under the outer layer and then put th enozzle of the glue gun between the outer layer and the patch and squirt in some glue, put some pressure on the patch then run the glue gun over the edges of the split to seal it.

For really small nicks I just smear the glue onto the nick. Works really well and is strong and waterproof.

If you have no old covers a quick trip to a charity shop and buy an old anorak or kids pack pack to cut up for patches
 
I haven't tried the stufff OP to be honest the sewing awl was the first thing I tried and so far so good! My rips tend to be straight lines or buckles! Which have no need for added material (just yet!!) Although you could just seal the thread with nikwax spray (or similar) for added waterproofing.
 
My mum does all of mine and makes all our fancy dress costumes with her industrial sewing machine. Trouble is once you know how everyone wants something doing.:)

Bought the sewing machine second hand out the paper for £50. Best buy ever!:D
 
I do -

iron on carpe joining tape. Sometimes I even iron it when the rug is still on the horse.

FANTASTIC

I even put a strap back on with it. Did it fail? No, the strap snapped at the edge of the tape. It's STRONG stuff, I have even got a wither split repair doing well with it right now.
 
I do too. Use stormsure in the way Xmas in the sun described. Can get a bit messy at times tho but worth it! So far so good all repairs still holding!
 
beehorses said:
My mum does all of mine and makes all our fancy dress costumes with her industrial sewing machine. Trouble is once you know how everyone wants something doing.:)
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I wouldn't mind, i quite like doing stuff like that and i knit in my spare time (what i have left of it since getting back to the yard ha ha! ;)), so craft stuff is kind of a hobby for me. I especially like it if things I make have practical uses. It would probably save everyone at the yard a fortune if I managed to do some repairs at cost for them. And the naughty little bit of me thinks "if i help out by doing some cheapy repairs they may return the favour by helping me out when i get a horse myself" ;) Hee hee! Mind you i'll have to use my own rugs as test subjects first coz the lady who does the repairs for the yard is very good at it!
 
You would mind if you were washing and repairing up to 250 rugs a year!
You soon get fed up with them.
You can have nightmares about repairing rugs!
I stopped doing them years ago, if you sew rugs on any machine, make sure they are as clean as you can get them, the dirt on rugs can knacker the workings of the machine as it acts like a grinding paste.
Oz :)
 
cremedemonthe said:
You would mind if you were washing and repairing up to 250 rugs a year!
You soon get fed up with them.
You can have nightmares about repairing rugs!
I stopped doing them years ago, if you sew rugs on any machine, make sure they are as clean as you can get them, the dirt on rugs can knacker the workings of the machine as it acts like a grinding paste.
Oz :)
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Ha ha yeah i think maybe 250 rugs a year might be a wee bit much! :D That's nearly one a day! Thanks for the tip on washing the rugs first and the iron tip from Santa Paws, I wouldn't have thought of those things and would have learned the hard way and my mum wouldn't be chuffed with me killing her sewing machine and iron! :o
 
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