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For carrying laying out of your carpet, you need some basic tools like: a utility knife, tape measure, straightedge, hacksaw, chalk line and awl. You need to have the tack strips and pad in place. After this is done, you can start laying the carpet.

How to Lay the Carpet?

To begin, cut the carpet with a carpet razor knife and also get a pack of extra blades. You must cut the carpet oversize a couple inches all around. You can lay it out on the street or driveway and rough cut it there. Then lay it inside and hook it on the tack strips in the middle of one wall and break out the stretcher.

If you are just doing only a patch, you can stretch the carpet with your hands or with a vacuum cleaner floor tool. But for a room, rent a carpet stretcher kit. It comes with the gripper head and many telescoping tubes. Brace it with a length of 2x4 (to protect the base molding) against the far wall (where you began hooking the carpet down). Set up the tubes so the power head ends up close to the other wall. Hook the gripper head to the carpet and use the lever arm for forcing the carpet in place. When it is in place, push the carpet down on the tack strip.

Then shift the stretcher by a slight angle and set the next edge of the carpet in place. Now, reverse the stretcher and do some work on the first wall. Work back and forth for a while. Then start in the middle of one side wall and then in that direction, back and forth until you get the carpet pretty well in place. While working on the corners, the carpet tends to fight you. So start trimming it. Using a razor knife cut the carpet, to make the edge fall under the base molding. Then tuck it under with a setting iron. Use the hammer on the tool for forcing the carpet into the crack under the base molding. You can even rent an edge trimming tool as buying one is expensive.


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