Carpet Laying Tips

Fitting carpet with integral underlay cover the floor with a paper underlay.

Carpet laying tips.

This is a standard rule of carpet installation. This can be newspaper or parcel paper it does not matter. This is so good you might want to pull up your. Here s a trick worth two of yours.

Next place the carpet pad within the tack strip layout and then staple it to the subfloor. Our homefit service will no longer be available from the 9 july 2018. Don t replace carpet or any flooring before performing this simple trick. A gap of around 50mm should be left around the perimeter of the room to allow you to stick double sided carpet tape to the floor.

The bolster chisel will help you attach the carpet on the opposite wall. The pad is easy to trim with a utility knife. Even though it s n. The first rule when laying carpet is to use some double sided tape to hold down sheets of paper to the floor.

Do not lay the padding over the tackless strips. Loosely lay out the carpet in approximately the correct position. If you floor is concrete or has previously been levelled with a smoothing compound then this can pull up off the floor and may require re smoothing or levelling. Any existing orders will be honoured until 14 december 2018.

Padding should touch the edge of the tackless strips but should not. Should you ever have cause to remove the carpet you will find that the paper will stop the underlay or foam backing sticking to the floor. Unroll the carpet and attach to the gripper strips on one side of the wall then work from the center of the room to smooth and stretch the carpet. This will protect the carpet from any dirt blown up from between the boards and will stop rubber or foam backed carpets sticking to the floor.

Keep the padding within the inner perimeter formed by the strips. Lay the carpet correctly.