Amazines Free Article Archive
www.amazines.com - Saturday, April 27, 2024
Read about the most recent changes and happenings at Amazines.com
Log into your account or register as a new author. Start submitting your articles right now!
Search our database for articles.
Subscribe to receive articles emailed straight to your email account. You may choose multiple categories.
View our newest articles submitted by our authors.
View our most top rated articles rated by our visitors.
* Please note that this is NOT the ARTICLE manager
Add a new EZINE, or manage your EZINE submission.
Add fresh, free web content to your site such as newest articles, web tools, and quotes with a single piece of code!
Home What's New? Submit/Manage Articles Latest Posts Top Rated Article Search
Google
Subscriptions Manage Ezines
CATEGORIES
 Article Archive
 Advertising (133573)
 Advice (161671)
 Affiliate Programs (34799)
 Art and Culture (73855)
 Automotive (145712)
 Blogs (75614)
 Boating (9851)
 Books (17223)
 Buddhism (4130)
 Business (1330642)
 Business News (426446)
 Business Opportunities (366518)
 Camping (10973)
 Career (72795)
 Christianity (15848)
 Collecting (11638)
 Communication (115089)
 Computers (241953)
 Construction (38962)
 Consumer (49953)
 Cooking (17080)
 Copywriting (6733)
 Crafts (18203)
 Cuisine (7549)
 Current Affairs (20319)
 Dating (45908)
 EBooks (19703)
 E-Commerce (48258)
 Education (185521)
 Electronics (83524)
 Email (6438)
 Entertainment (159855)
 Environment (28973)
 Ezine (3040)
 Ezine Publishing (5453)
 Ezine Sites (1551)
 Family & Parenting (111007)
 Fashion & Cosmetics (196606)
 Female Entrepreneurs (11853)
 Feng Shui (134)
 Finance & Investment (310615)
 Fitness (106469)
 Food & Beverages (63045)
 Free Web Resources (7941)
 Gambling (30227)
 Gardening (25202)
 Government (10519)
 Health (630137)
 Hinduism (2206)
 Hobbies (44083)
 Home Business (91657)
 Home Improvement (251211)
 Home Repair (46244)
 Humor (4723)
 Import - Export (5459)
 Insurance (45104)
 Interior Design (29616)
 International Property (3488)
 Internet (191031)
 Internet Marketing (146687)
 Investment (22861)
 Islam (1161)
 Judaism (1352)
 Law (80507)
 Link Popularity (4596)
 Manufacturing (20914)
 Marketing (99316)
 MLM (14140)
 Motivation (18233)
 Music (27000)
 New to the Internet (9496)
 Non-Profit Organizations (4048)
 Online Shopping (129734)
 Organizing (7813)
 Party Ideas (11855)
 Pets (38165)
 Poetry (2229)
 Press Release (12689)
 Public Speaking (5643)
 Publishing (7566)
 Quotes (2407)
 Real Estate (126700)
 Recreation & Leisure (95495)
 Relationships (87674)
 Research (16182)
 Sales (80350)
 Science & Technology (110291)
 Search Engines (23514)
 Self Improvement (153300)
 Seniors (6220)
 Sexuality (36010)
 Small Business (49312)
 Software (83034)
 Spiritual (23517)
 Sports (116155)
 Tax (7663)
 Telecommuting (34070)
 Travel & Tourism (308305)
 UK Property Investment (3123)
 Video Games (13382)
 Web Traffic (11790)
 Website Design (56919)
 Website Promotion (36663)
 World News (1000+)
 Writing (35843)
Author Spotlight
DESIGNPLUZ DIGITALAGENCY

Designpluz has steadily matured from a passionate graphics design start-up, into a full service digi...more
ELLIOT CHANG

Financial analyst and author writing on economy and business. ...more
TAL BARNEA

Tal is an electrical engineer with over 25 years of expertise with hardware, software, mechanical an...more
MANMOHAN SINGH

Digital marketing professional with 8 years of experience. A good listner, Stratgist and fun loving ...more
LEMUEL ASIBAL

Lemuel Asibal is a web content writer who also ventures on writing articles and blog posts about any...more


Usual Concerns in Laying Carpet at Home by Theresa Flores





Article Author Biography
Usual Concerns in Laying Carpet at Home by
Article Posted: 02/11/2012
Article Views: 100
Articles Written: 1738
Word Count: 529
Article Votes: 0
AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Usual Concerns in Laying Carpet at Home


 
Home Improvement,Family & Parenting,Health
Laying carpet is something we would most certainly recommend is left to the professionals. Carpets are expensive and a mistake can cost a lot of money as well as leaving a room looking very untidy. However we know that DIY'ers the world over will want to have a go so we have listed the basic points to remember and, hopefully, help you. You should hire or buy a carpet knee kicker (or carpet stretcher) from a tool hire shop. It will stretch the carpet into position and stop any "bubbles" spoiling the job. You will also need to hire a carpet bolster which is a 3 inch bolster (the same as an electricians bolster) but with a very blunt, rounded edge. You should also wear some knee pads as you will be on your knees a lot!

f you take a look at many other DIY Projects on this web site, eg plastering, you will see that we recommend practice before the final operation. Your

carpet supplier will give you a couple of off cuts and you can practice cutting a carpet into a corner or round a doorframe.

Carpets are either supplied with a foam or rubber back which serves as the underlay or they need to be laid on a separate underlay.

First roll out your carpet in the empty room and cut it so it has an extra 200mm (8 inches) all round the room. Make sure any pattern in the carpet is square to the walls and that you cut enough overlap through any doorways. Now roll it up again and put to one side.

The first rule when laying carpet is to use some double sided tape to hold down sheets of paper to the floor. This can be newspaper or parcel paper, it does not matter. Should you ever have cause to remove the carpet you will find that the paper will stop the underlay or foam backing sticking to the floor.

Next, lay the gripper round the perimeter of the room. Wherever there will be a carpet edge, there should be gripper. Gripper comes with nails pre-installed and is laid about 12mm or half an inch away from the room boundaries, i.e. skirtings etc. The masonry nails in the gripper will usually be tough enough to hammer into floor screed. The sharp points on the gripper rods should always point towards the walls. These points grip the carpet as it is stretched over them and keep it tightly in place. Lay the gripper all round the room using a jointing strip (right) in the doorways. The jointing strip will have the same sharp points to grip the carpet.

The underlay should now be laid inside the gripper. Use double sided tape on all joins underneath the underlay.

Roll out the carpet on the underlay making sure it is square to the walls if patterns are involved. Push the carpet into one corner so the overlap you have allowed folds down onto the carpet leaving a crease where the carpet meets the skirting board.

For more of this topic please see the links below:

carpet layer west auckland

Related Articles - carpet laying, carpet layer, laying carpet, carpet laying auckland, carpet layers,

Email this Article to a Friend!

Receive Articles like this one direct to your email box!
Subscribe for free today!

 Rate This Article  
Completely useless, should be removed from directory.
Minimal useful information.
Decent and informative.
Great article, very informative and helpful.
A 'Must Read'.



 Author Login 
LOGIN
Register for Author Account

 

Advertiser Login

 

ADVERTISE HERE NOW!
   Limited Time $60 Offer!
   90  Days-1.5 Million Views  

 

Great Paranormal Romance


GENE MYERS

Author of four books and two screenplays; frequent magazine contributor. I have four other books "in...more
TIM FAY

After 60-plus years of living, I am just trying to pass down some of the information that I have lea...more
LAURA JEEVES

At LeadGenerators, we specialise in content-led Online Marketing Strategies for our clients in the t...more
ALEX BELSEY

I am the editor of QUAY Magazine, a B2B publication based in the South West of the UK. I am also the...more
SUSAN FRIESEN

Located in the lower mainland of B.C., Susan Friesen is a visionary brand strategist, entrepreneur, ...more
STEVERT MCKENZIE

Stevert Mckenzie, Travel Enthusiast. ...more
STEPHEN BYE

Steve Bye is currently a fiction writer, who published his first novel, ‘Looking Forward Through the...more
SHALINI MITTAL

A postgraduate in Fashion Technology. Shalini is a writer at heart! Writing for her is an expression...more
ADRIAN JOELE

I have been involved in nutrition and weight management for over 12 years and I like to share my kn...more
JAMES KENNY

James is a Research Enthusiast that focuses on the understanding of how things work and can be impro...more

HomeLinksAbout UsContact UsTerms of UsePrivacy PolicyFAQResources
Copyright © 2024, All rights reserved.
Some pages may contain portions of text relating to certain topics obtained from wikipedia.org under the GNU FDL license