If your home has a carpet in it then you most likely will run into this problem at some point in your life. As a matter of fact it happened to me just the other day. Your vacuuming your carpet, and listening to your favorite jams on your Ipod, and all of the sudden you hear a loud obnoxious noise that sounds like your vacuum is eating the carpet.
Well it literally is. When you weren’t paying attention to some loose fibers you hit one of them with a bristle underneath your cleaner, which in turn caught the fiber and started the slow but damaging unraveling of your carpet. When you finally get the good sense to turn it off and pull the vacuum away to see the damage you will usually have a line of thread missing. This is a big eye sore, and can make you lose your security deposit if you haven’t been living somewhere very long.
There aren’t many ways to fix this. However if you are desperate what we have seen people do in the past is go into the back corner of a closet, or the corner of a room, and scrape some fibers from there.YOU DON’T WANT TO TAKE SO MUCH FIBER FROM THOSE SPOTS THAT YOU CAUSE ANOTHER PROBLEM. Take from multiple spots if needed or if you are too worried to do that then you can take the piece of fiber that your vacuum pulled from the carpet and run it along something sharp such as a knife to strip the fibers, and basically make a little pile of filler for that line. Then you can take some superglue and lay it down in the line. Once laid down put the carpet fibers on top but make sure you don’t press them down so much that even the top fibers are stuck in the glue.
You want to make sure its springy still not a big pieces of carpet matted down with superglue. We don’t back or guarantee that this will work but have seen it work before. Once completed make sure you don’t vacuum that spot again, and also make sure you warn any professional carpet cleaners about your handy work so they don’t mess it up.