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.

This is so good you might want to pull up your. Keep the padding within the inner perimeter formed by the strips. Do not lay the padding over the tackless strips. 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.

Lay the carpet correctly. You can seal the joints that form where two pieces meet with duct tape. Fitting carpet with integral underlay cover the floor with a paper underlay. This can be newspaper or parcel paper it does not matter.

The bolster chisel will help you attach the carpet on the opposite wall. Next place the carpet pad within the tack strip layout and then staple it to the subfloor. Don t replace carpet or any flooring before performing this simple trick. Here s a trick worth two of yours.

The pad is easy to trim with a utility knife. 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. 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. Any existing orders will be honoured until 14 december 2018.

This is a standard rule of carpet installation. Loosely lay out the carpet in approximately the correct position. Our homefit service will no longer be available from the 9 july 2018. In many cases laying tongue and groove floor boards is the most effective way to prep the floor for a new luxury carpet.

Padding should touch the edge of the tackless strips but should not. 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.