2 Method And Items Needed To Install Carpet
The life span of the carpet is near about 4-5 years if cared properly, Installing carpet with furniture in your room is not advisable by most nonrecreational carpet installers. If you want to install carpet with furniture in your room then we are here to help you, you just need to collect the given items and to follow all the 2 methods. Here are the item list and 2 methods:
Items List
- Measuring tape & Carpet
- Carpet knife & Cleaning supplies
- Tackstrips & Hammer
- Nails & Two-sided tape
- Padding & Lumber
Method 1: Preparation
After collecting the required items now you need to follow the given steps:
- Measure the room first by using a measuring tape. Measure the length & width of your room to know how large to cut the carpet. You have also need to measure & cut the pad if you are going to use using carpet padding. The uncomplicated carpet to lay is rubber-backed carpet because it requires no padding or tack strips to hold it in place.
- Find a location where you can spread out your carpet, turn it over & cut it to fit the measurements that you have taken. You will need to use a carpet knife to cut the carpet.
- Remove any of your old carpet, padding or tack strips from your floor. In order to do this task, you will have to work on one side of your room at a time, stacking your furniture on the other side of your room.
- Clean the floor now, ensuring that there is no dust or debris.
- Stack your furniture on the different side of the room from where you plan to start laying the carpet on your.
Method 2: Installation
Here are the steps for this installation method:
- Secure new tack strips to your floor along with the walls on the side of your room you are working on. Doing this by placing the tack strips 1/4 inch from the wall & using 1/4-inch nails to hammer down the strips. 2 nails per strip will be sufficient. If you are using the rubber-backed carpet, use two-sided tape & place the tape along with the edge of the carpet all the way around the carpet edge.
- Lay down the padding & then roll out half of your carpet over the padding. Now, attach your carpet to the tack strips using the hammer or remove the backing to the two-sided tape & lay the carpet on your floor along the edge of the wall, depending on what type of carpet you are going to lay. Make sure to smooth your carpet out as you go to avert having any ripples on your floor.
- Stack all of your furniture on the side of the room where the carpet has been laid & repeat steps 1 & 2 on the new side of the room. It is advisable to use a straight piece of lumber to stretch carpeting to the walls where you are going to attach it to tack strips.