Carpet Fitting
Discussion
Has anyone on here fitted carpet before?
I've got a small area to do & instead of paying someone to come in and do it i thought i'd have a crack @ doing it myself as it's just a bog standard square room.
I've watched a couple of tutorial vids on Youtube & it seems fairly straightfoward!
Any novices had a go before?
Where's the cheapest place to buy the Underlay & gripper from?
I've got a small area to do & instead of paying someone to come in and do it i thought i'd have a crack @ doing it myself as it's just a bog standard square room.
I've watched a couple of tutorial vids on Youtube & it seems fairly straightfoward!
Any novices had a go before?
Where's the cheapest place to buy the Underlay & gripper from?
crackthatoff said:
lawrence567 said:
Having carptetted all the rooms in my OH's house for her, to a reasonable standard for a DIY 'tard.
I'm now going to tackle the stairs.
What do you do about the edges of the stairs?
I presume it has to be cut perfectly straight as you have nothing to tuck under?
depending on the thickness of the carpet put a gripper facing downwards on the riser( so the writing is upside down) about an inch up from the bottom of the step and another gripper on the stair again an inch away from the face ( for a thick carpet) lay a rectangle of underlay upto the bottom gripper that just overlaps the edge of the step and leave a gap of around 5-10 mm on each side. Cut the carpet about a cm too big in width and as you are fitting curl the edges with your fingers to give a nice neat result! I'm now going to tackle the stairs.
What do you do about the edges of the stairs?
I presume it has to be cut perfectly straight as you have nothing to tuck under?
or just pay a pro to do it, the fitting for just a straight staircase with no twisted steps, hall or landing should be around £30-40 including grippers, it baffles the mind why you would do it your self as you will probably pay about £20 just to buy the grippers, but hey-ho each to their own and all that. Peace !
& i don't want some pro coming in & saying what a crap job the rest of it is as she thinks i'm a god send for doign it & saving her loads of cash!
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