Carpet Laying Tips

The first rule when laying carpet is to use some double sided tape to hold down sheets of paper to the floor.

Carpet laying tips.

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. You can seal the joints that form where two pieces meet with duct tape. This is a standard rule of carpet installation.

Do not lay the padding over the tackless strips. Don t replace carpet or any flooring before performing this simple trick. 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. In many cases laying tongue and groove floor boards is the most effective way to prep the floor for a new luxury carpet.

This can be newspaper or parcel paper it does not matter. The pad is easy to trim with a utility knife. This is so good you might want to pull up your. Next place the carpet pad within the tack strip layout and then staple it to the subfloor.

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. Padding should touch the edge of the tackless strips but should not. Any existing orders will be honoured until 14 december 2018. Keep the padding within the inner perimeter formed by the strips.

Loosely lay out the carpet in approximately the correct position. It s also a great way to reduce draught atop floorboards. 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. Fitting carpet with integral underlay cover the floor with a paper underlay.

Even though it s n. 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.