Wall To Wall Carpet Yourself

Stretch the carpet with the knee kicker to link to the hooks in the binder bar then use a wooden block or scrap piece of lumber to close the binder bar onto the edge of the carpet.

Wall to wall carpet yourself.

Clean and prep the floor. Don t install tackless strips across thresholds or doorways. Or you do a great job spot cleaning only to reveal how dirty the rest of the carpeting really is. Go wall to wall for a newly carpeted room or create a custom rug with modern style.

Cut the tackless strips to size with a strip cutter or heavy snips image 1. Stretch carpeting toward each wall. If you have carpet already in place be prepared to remove it before moving on. Here s a way to get them green clean.

Cut lengths of tackless strip to fit each wall around the perimeter of the room. Installing carpet can be hard on your knees and back and you should be prepared to take some time to get the job done. The tacks on the strips are sharp and could poke through the carpet and hurt your feet. This floorigami stay toned diy carpet ships straight to your door ready to install with no installation experience required.

Press down firmly with the wooden end of a hammer firmly seating the carpet into the tack strip. Trim excess carpeting along wall with double blade wall trimmer. Use knee kicker and stair chisel to force rough cut carpet edge into space between tack strip and baseboard. When trimming carpet next to a wall tack down into the gulley space between the tack strip and the baseboard using a plastic paddle.

Force carpeting down onto tack strip with stair chisel. These products unleash your diy superpowers so you can easily transform any space. Secure them with the pre driven nails into the subfloor keeping the strip out from the wall about 2 3 the thickness of the carpet. A vacuum and a carpet steam cleaner don t worry i explain why we need the heavy equipment below.

Nail a binder bar to any areas where the carpet ends without abutting a wall such as a threshold. Salt borax and white vinegar. Employ a power stretcher to pull carpet tight across floor.