what do you do with off-cuts of carpet that the carpet fitters leave behind? i’ve got an L-shaped piece, 1 leg of the L is about 2 metres x 0.75 metres and the other leg is about 1.5 metres x 1 metre. any ideas?

shed floor..

line the car boot

Strap it to you feet to have a comfy feeling wherever you walk.

Cut them into shoe shapes and give/sell them to the poor.

Remeber crazyt paving? Cut them into irregular shapes and crazy carpet your lounge…….

Use as a ‘runner’ to cover the motorway bit of carpet through your room?

Stick em to your garage (if you have one) wall where your car doors would normally open, thus minimising the chance of damage.

Alternatively fashion some rather plush chain stay 😉 protectors

Keep cut strips wheel width in car boot for grip in snow/ ice for snowy apocalypse II?

door mats

Bike mat for the winter 😉

Use them to help dispose of a body. Extra points if the body is the carpet fitter.

luxury loft insulation?

fashion some rather plush chain stay protectors

great idea!

if it’s a wool carpet, how about a nice baselayer for winter riding?

cut into squares and use as garage kneeling pads, or for putting bike on when upside down, use a neat strip to protect high wear/dirt areas (front door etc) alternatively fit to a Black and Decker, apply to knees and then wink knowingly at friends when they ask what happened

grow cress in it.

Cut them up into small strips about the size of rizzla packets. Apply self adhesive backing. Fly to Vegas zand sell them at an Elvis convention as stick-on sideburns.

Wife uses carpet on the allotment to ‘path’ the bits between the beds. Keeps them a bit less muddy.

😆

For any mental dogs when you’re out on the trail

Make a cosy for your compost heap…..

Keep them for when you go to uni and have to put your bikes in your room, but don’t want to get charged at the end of the year for destroying the existing carpet.

keep it somewhere safe … so you can patch in the bit you drop your wine / coffee / chain / lit candle on.

yep use it as a bike mat for the winter and cut a smaller piece of mat for your back door so the doggies can wipe their feet (no more muddy footprints (hahhahah)

Cougar – Member
Use as a ‘runner’ to cover the motorway bit of carpet through your room?

+1 for this, even a really good quality carpet will show signes of wear quite quickly in the high impact areas, our smallish living room always has a “pathway” from the door to the hallway to the door leading to the kitchen area, so using these offcuts as a runner might be good, unless it is a room like a bedroom that isn’t likely to develop an obvious wear strip.
Other than that cut it to shape for the car boot. I personally wouldn’t put it in my shed as the local rodents would have a field day stripping it and making nests of the stuff.

Sound insulate your shower pump?

Definitely keep some for patching.

Apply for planning permission for a small L-shaped extention

Lol!

I work on my own car,sometimes underneath and put it down to lie on (lot more comfy than cold slabs)

Line cheap speaker cabinets with it.

maccruiskeen – Member

Apply for planning permission for a small L-shaped extention

Best idea so far 😆

Go back to 1990 and take up bouldering.

cut a few small bits in 7 different shapes.

merkin for each day of the week.

Just throw it away.

It makes good weed control stuff f’ t’ garden.

The local allotment types will be glad of it

APF

I’d rather have a worn bit in my carpet than some random bit of other carpet. Looks sillier imo.

I could use an offcut of decent carpet in my caravan, actually..

I carpeted my garage with our removed lounge carpet !

You obviously don’t own a landrover.

Strap it to your feet and cut some rug wherever you go.