Carpet Laying Tips

In many cases laying tongue and groove floor boards is the most effective way to prep the floor for a new luxury carpet.

Carpet laying tips.

This is so good you might want to pull up your. The bolster chisel will help you attach the carpet on the opposite wall. Our homefit service will no longer be available from the 9 july 2018. Padding should touch the edge of the tackless strips but should not.

Loosely lay out the carpet in approximately the correct position. It s also a great way to reduce draught atop floorboards. 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. This can be newspaper or parcel paper it does not matter.

Here s a trick worth two of yours. 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. 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. This is a standard rule of carpet installation.

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. Don t replace carpet or any flooring before performing this simple trick. Fitting carpet with integral underlay cover the floor with a paper underlay. Any existing orders will be honoured until 14 december 2018.

The pad is easy to trim with a utility knife. Do not lay the padding over the tackless strips. Keep the padding within the inner perimeter formed by the strips. 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.

You can seal the joints that form where two pieces meet with duct tape. Even though it s n.