The Best And Simple Methods To Install A Carpet

To install a carpet at your own is quite difficult, but we have those methods that will make your carpet installation easy. Some necessary tools and a little bit of observation to be required in the procedure of carpet installation. If you have carpet that is previously fixed on the floor, remove it and be prepared to install a new carpet with our guidelines. Installing a new or fresh carpets can be quite hard for the naive. But our guidelines will make your work easy and simple. So, keep reading to install your new carpet wall-to-wall.

Arranging New Material


  1. First vacuum and clean the floor: Make sure that your floor under the carpet is cleaned or not. Remove any type of debris or dust from the floor to prepare it for installing new carpet and leave it to dry up.


  1. Measure the room footage measurement: You need to measure the length and breadth for knowing the square footage of your room. Just start from the longest side of your room and write down the accurate measurement. Do the same from the other side too and write down your measurements on a notebook.


  1. Buy your new carpet and padding according to your measurements. While buying your new carpet, remember your room measurement about square feet or meters. You have to compare your carpet's requirements with the offer that is available in the store.


  1. Buy tack strip according to your requirements. If you are going to buy new tack strip, multiply your measurements of the room's length and breadth, by the number of 2 and then plus 10% of room length. You have to apply a tack strip around the entire border of your room. If you have already an old tack strip, you can use but it should not be damaged.

Apply Carpet Padding And Tack Strips Down


  1. Apply tack strips. Place the tack strips from wall to wall in a straight line. You can use sharp nails for placing the tack strip. Apply 2 or 3 nails to attach each tack strip with wood below.


  1. Arrange the padding on the floor: Start rolling out the padding from one side to another by making sure that you have enough padding on both ends of the room's edges.


  1. Staple padding into the right place by using the staple gun: You have to staple the padding with the tacking strip to secure it in place against the wall.


  1. Use Duct tape to affix the carpet: Use a long piece of duct tape for preparing your carpet to be affixed on the floor.

Place the Carpet


  1. Affix the carpet. Now, it is time to place the carpet by holding it and leave extra texture at the end of each corner. So, you will be able to fix your extra carpet fibre inside the wood below corners by nailing it. In this process, you can use too seaming tape underneath your carpet. So, you can allow the carpet to be sticky form both sides.


  1. Use a knee kicker. A knee kicker is a solid metal tool that will be helpful to grip or clutch the carpet. It will stretch the carpet over the tack strip to hold it firmly.


  1. Trim off the excess carpet: The final step is trimming. You have to trim off the excess carpet to make your carpet smooth and attractive in appearance. If still, this work seems difficult for you, you may hire experts for Carpet Repair Hobart.

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