I would like to know if anyone can give me step-by-step instructions on how to dye wall-to-wall carpet.?

Question

This carpet is a hunter green color and I believe it is nylon.

Answer 1

A formibable challenge, even for a RUG manufacturer.

I guess my Q would be "Why?"

A few things come to mind in this.

Hunter Green would be a difficult color to change in any fabric, and the fact that it's Nylon, might add to the difficulty.

Then there is the issue of it being wall to wall, and having to do anything like that while the carpet "remains in place"

Assume for a moment that changing the color would work. There is padding under that wall to wall, "it's a "sponge"
To effectively Dye it, you'd have to soak it perhaps, probably with gallons of the material (not talking from strict experience)
The padding would remain wet for a lot longer than the dye, and become an issue in itself.
Then there is an issue, even in ideal conditions of the color being even.

In all,,, I'd say don't do it. Not knowing how it might turn out, or how long you could live not using any room, I'd forget it.

Steven Wolf

Answer 2

Nylon carpets can be dyed by accident but I've never heard of trying to dye them. If you are trying to get them a lighter colour you would need to bleach the colour out first. Some nylons are treated to prevent this. Bleaching your carpet would probably damage the latex bonding layer which holds the fibres to the secondary backing causing delamination (the carpet develops huge ripples and falls apart eventually). If the carpet is made from Polypropylene, polyester or acrylic (frequently used n carpet manufacturing) it is highly unlikely to work.

Best thing you can do is save yourself the heartache and hard work and just buy a carpet the right colour.

Answer 3

I saw this done one time- they put the dye liquid in a Carpet cleaning machine, then use the trigger to release the dye water, just like a cleaning fluid- the machine picks up the excess.

Not sure if Nylon can be dyed- and you won't have much luck trying to dye a dark color like hunter green. I had a beige color dyed , hunter green, ha ha

Answer 4

This project sounds like a huge mess. I would either hire it out or just bite the bullet and get new carpet. If you can't afford to do it all at once do one room at a time.

Answer 5

1) Get Telephone Yellow Pages from bookshelf

2) Pick up telephone and call 3 of them.

3) ask for prices and customer recommendations

4) call Better Business Bureau

5) Think about where you can store all of your furniture while the process is being done

6) re-think the whole thing