Choosing a carpet is quite simple today. But at the same time, laying it may require some skill and special knowledge. The right actions will ensure faithful flooring service for many years. But non-compliance with the technology can lead to the appearance of bumps, bumps.
Before laying the carpet do it yourself, you need to decide which of the main methods you will do this. You can lay the material on the floor without the use of additional tools. Or you can use glue for additional fixation.
Carpet laying begins with preparatory work, namely measurements. Experts will say, and will be right, that correctly carried out measurements provide half the successful outcome of the event. If the rooms are not perfectly flat, then do not be lazy and draw a plan of the rooms. And you should not trust the official plan in the technical documentation for the house. Add the independently prepared plan with radiators, doorways and other important elements in the room that can affect the laying of the carpet. Only with a detailed plan can you go to the store. Here you will receive comprehensive advice from the seller, who will help you choose the optimal width of the product.
Further repairs must be continued by preparing the floors for installation. The surface must be thoroughly cleaned of dust, grease and dirt. A double-sided adhesive tape can be glued around the perimeter without tearing off the topcoat until the very start of installation. The carpet must be spread throughout the room, without first driving under the baseboard. If there are extra centimeters, then it is better to lay them on the walls. Subsequently, these extra sites come in handy. But the doorways and niches must be processed immediately and very carefully. Everything should be adjusted and trimmed just filigree precisely at the initial stage. So do not save time and effort on this work.
Now apartment renovation continues by cutting off those extra centimeters on the walls. To do this, you need to use a long and even board, possibly a level.You need to trim with a sharp clerical knife, leaving two centimeters that will go under the baseboard. Previously, the carpet should lie down for several days. Equating it from the center to the corners, we get a perfectly flat surface.
Particular attention must be paid to thresholds, places under radiators and around pipes. All openings prepared for pipes must be treated with glue, because only in this case can apartment repair be considered successful. The place around the pipes refers to the risk zone, since this is where the carpet can be wrapped. Under the radiator, the carpet must be cut with two even strips, which will determine the exact size for this niche. And, finally, the excess carpet is pushed neatly under the baseboard, glued to a pre-spread double-sided adhesive tape.
Ending construction cottages, it is possible to lay a carpet and with glue. This method is more time-consuming, but also more reliable. After all measurements are made and the carpet is laid down, a special adhesive solution is applied to the floor. After this, the floor covering is laid and long leveled from the center to the corners so that there are no bumps, wrinkles and tubercles. If you apply glue only around the perimeter, then in the first days there will be signs of poor-quality styling.