Knowing a little bit about how carpet is installed
can give you a whole lot of
insight as to whether or not Your Carpet is being installed correctly.
This basic knowledge also helps prepare you for
the experience of having your new carpet installed.
Installing carpet is very hard work, but the principle is very simple. Here is a
basic description of "stretch-in" carpet installation.
First, tack-less strips are nailed down around the
perimeter of the room. Tack strips are 4’ long wooden strips, and are nailed
directly to the floor around the perimeter of the room. They have many very
sharp nails that are aimed towards the wall and are designed to hold the carpet
tight, after being stretched over them.
Above
is an illustration that
shows what tack-less strips are and how they are positioned.
Second, the pad is rolled out and
stapled down to wooden floors or glued down to concrete floors. The pad is then
trimmed up to the inside edge of the tack strips, and secured to the floor with
staples, tape or glue making sure that the pad does
not lie on top of the tack strip.
Next, the carpet is rolled out, in a
predetermined direction, and if there are seams to be put together, preparation
now begins. Because carpet usually comes only in 12 foot widths, it is
sometimes necessary to seam together two pieces of carpet in order to make it
wide enough for the room size. Before two edges of carpet are joined, both sides must be cut perfectly
straight, as this will help to hide the finished seam from view. The two separate pieces of carpet are then joined
together permanently using a seaming iron: an electric iron that simply heats a hot-melt
adhesive tape that is placed underneath the edges of both carpet pieces to be
joined. After the seam
tape becomes hot, both edges of the carpet that are to be joined together are
carefully placed into the hot glue, and then allowed to cool.
Below an installer is seaming together two
pieces of sculptured style carpet.
After all the seams are
joined and the hot-melt glue cools the carpet is ready to be stretched.
The carpet is then stretched
with a power-stretcher strategically from one wall to the opposite
wall and attached to the tack strips allowing a few inches of extra carpet to go
up each wall for trimming. After the carpet has been completely secured to the tack strips,
the carpet is trimmed flush with the wall and the excess is removed. Then the
trimmed edge is tucked in where the wall meets the floor. The carpet around the
door jambs is then trimmed by hand and neatly tucked. A good installer will
always remove all carpet scraps and replace all doors and sliding closet doors
and hardware, and if you are really lucky he may even vacuum!
Although this is a very basic description of how carpet is installed, it
should help you to know a bit about carpet installation before your installer
comes to install your new carpet.
Note:
It is very important to have children and pets safely out of
the way when your carpet is being installed, as most tools used to install
carpets can be hazardous.
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