Carpet Laying Tips

Next place the carpet pad within the tack strip layout and then staple it to the subfloor.

Carpet laying tips.

Do not lay the padding over the tackless strips. Any existing orders will be honoured until 14 december 2018. Our homefit service will no longer be available from the 9 july 2018. The bolster chisel will help you attach the carpet on the opposite wall.

Here s a trick worth two of yours. Lay the carpet correctly. This is a standard rule of carpet installation. The pad is easy to trim with a utility knife.

Padding should touch the edge of the tackless strips but should not. The first rule when laying carpet is to use some double sided tape to hold down sheets of paper to the floor. 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.

Loosely lay out the carpet in approximately the correct position. In many cases laying tongue and groove floor boards is the most effective way to prep the floor for a new luxury carpet. Even though it s n. It s also a great way to reduce draught atop floorboards.

This is so good you might want to pull up your. This can be newspaper or parcel paper it does not matter. Keep the padding within the inner perimeter formed by the strips. Fitting carpet with integral underlay cover the floor with a paper underlay.

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.