Wall To Wall Carpet Yourself

Trim excess carpeting along wall with double blade wall trimmer.

Wall to wall carpet yourself.

This floorigami stay toned diy carpet ships straight to your door ready to install with no installation experience required. Nail a binder bar to any areas where the carpet ends without abutting a wall such as a threshold. 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.

Or you do a great job spot cleaning only to reveal how dirty the rest of the carpeting really is. Use knee kicker and stair chisel to force rough cut carpet edge into space between tack strip and baseboard. Installing your own wall to wall carpet may sound daunting but with the right tools and some perseverance you can certainly install carpet yourself. Employ a power stretcher to pull carpet tight across floor.

Press down firmly with the wooden end of a hammer firmly seating the carpet into the tack strip. Cut lengths of tackless strip to fit each wall around the perimeter of the room. If you have carpet already in place be prepared to remove it before moving on. Don t install tackless strips across thresholds or doorways.

The tacks on the strips are sharp and could poke through the carpet and hurt your feet. Salt borax and white vinegar. Force carpeting down onto tack strip with stair chisel. 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.

Clean and prep the floor. 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. When trimming carpet next to a wall tack down into the gulley space between the tack strip and the baseboard using a plastic paddle. Here s a way to get them green clean.

Stretch carpeting toward each wall. Installing carpet can be hard on your knees and back and you should be prepared to take some time to get the job done. These products unleash your diy superpowers so you can easily transform any space.