Stand in one corner with your foot underneath the carpet and move it into place with your other foot.
Diy carpet fitting guide.
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The tacks on the strips are sharp and could poke through the carpet and hurt your feet.
Cut the carpet down to size if you need to but leave at least 50mm extra around the edges.
Measure the threshold and cut the carpet gripper to length with a hack saw.
You are now ready to fit your carpet.
We hope that you learnt a lot from our guide to carpet fitting and installation.
However we know that diy ers the world over will want to have a go so we have listed the basic points to remember and hopefully help you.
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Roll out the carpet and trim any excess length or width to make it easier to handle and fit.
Push the teeth of a knee kicker into the carpet around 30cm from the wall.
It will stretch the carpet into position and stop any bubbles spoiling the job.
Seal the edge of the carpet with latex seam sealer to prevent unraveling.
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Cut the tackless strips to size with a strip cutter or heavy snips image 1.
Nail the strips 1 2 from the wall image 2.
Unroll your carpet and lay it loosely into position on the floor.
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Use the knee kicker to fit the carpet over the hooks in the carpet.
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Screw the carpet trim to the floor.
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Install carpet transition strips at thresholds where carpet meets another type of flooring.
Make sure you are cutting in the right place for example twist pile carpets should be cut from the back and loop pile carpets from the front.
