Laying carpet is something we would most certainly recommend is left to the professionals. Carpets are expensive and a mistake can cost a lot of money as well as leaving a room looking very untidy.
f you take a look at many other DIY Projects on this web site, eg plastering, you will see that we recommend practice before the final operation. Your
carpet supplier will give you a couple of off cuts and you can practice cutting a carpet into a corner or round a doorframe.
Carpets are either supplied with a foam or rubber back which serves as the underlay or they need to be laid on a separate underlay.
First roll out your carpet in the empty room and cut it so it has an extra 200mm (8 inches) all round the room. Make sure any pattern in the carpet is square to the walls and that you cut enough overlap through any doorways. Now roll it up again and put to one side.
The first rule when laying carpet is to use some double sided tape to hold down sheets of paper to the floor. This can be newspaper or parcel paper, it does not matter. 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.
Next, lay the gripper round the perimeter of the room. Wherever there will be a carpet edge, there should be gripper. Gripper comes with nails pre-installed and is laid about 12mm or half an inch away from the room boundaries, i.e. skirtings etc. The masonry nails in the gripper will usually be tough enough to hammer into floor screed. The sharp points on the gripper rods should always point towards the walls. These points grip the carpet as it is stretched over them and keep it tightly in place. Lay the gripper all round the room using a jointing strip (right) in the doorways. The jointing strip will have the same sharp points to grip the carpet.
The underlay should now be laid inside the gripper. Use double sided tape on all joins underneath the underlay.
Roll out the carpet on the underlay making sure it is square to the walls if patterns are involved. Push the carpet into one corner so the overlap you have allowed folds down onto the carpet leaving a crease where the carpet meets the skirting board.
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