Choose a carpet for the house or office
Let's pay attention to a few nuances that need to be considered when choosing a carpet. In the store, you will realize that the choice is not so simple, because the eyes scatter from the variety. Immediately remember the goals for which the purchase is made. If this is an office, then the material should not be fluffy, dense, strict colors, and if you need to make a bed for a nursery, you need a soft material, preferably easy to wash and not light tones.
It is also important to pay attention to the batch of the product, if you need to lay out of several pieces, otherwise you may not match the shades or even slightly distort the picture, this is unlikely to decorate the room. Also, when the laying of the carpet is done, you will have to join these pieces not only according to the drawing, but also in the direction of the nap, you can not take the trouble. But this is an extreme case, it is best to pick up the carpet so that it turns out to be a single piece, since today there is a wide range of width of this type of coating.
Determine the way of laying the carpet, prepare the room
Do you think how to make carpet? We will rejoice you, there are quite a few ways to do this, and they are all capable of each novice master. The choice depends on many parameters : the state of the floor, the type and the patency of the room, the kind of carpet base.
The last criterion will determine the way to cut your piece of cover: for soft coatings( without a solid PVC backing) you will have to make a small allowance, for hard it will not be needed.
The floor under the carpet is leveled, thoroughly washed, cleaned and dried. It must be firm, the sagging floor of the boardwalk here is not good, it will have to be fixed, leveled and looped. For the carpet is not as strict as for parquet, but you should still withstand the temperature and humidity. Work is necessary at the following values: temperature - not lower than 15 degrees Celsius, humidity - not more than 75%.The coating itself should also not be freezed, it should be kept enough time at room temperature, preferably a day before laying.
How to make carpet - consider all methods of
There are at least three most frequently used methods: free, glue and glueless styling. Free laying of does not require special financial costs and is easily implemented with help of improvised tools. It is also divided into two types of fixation type - perimeter and scotch tape.
With the method with fixation along the perimeter of the , the carpet is rolled out to the entire room, it is necessary to calculate the allowance for walls about 7 cm. The coating is then smoothed by smoothing, the direction is logical to withstand from the middle to the edges. Now it only remains to fix the plinth, cutting off the excesses that will interfere. In the passage it is possible to fix the covering with a metal paddle.
When the carpet is fixed to the double-sided adhesive tape, the work will become a bit complicated. The first thing on the floor is a grid of scotch tape with a cell of 50x50 cm, while the upper protective film is not removed until the very last moment. On top of the grid is applied carpet, it is rolled to the entire room with the same overlaps on the walls, as in the previous method. When everything is checked, we quietly tear off the protective film and apply a carpet on the scotch tape. When the process is completed, we cut off all the excess at the edges. But if you plan also skirting, then under them the cover is not put, so cut off the edges for another 3-5 cm, depending on the width of the skirting.
Next, consider what the glued laying .This method is used when it is assumed that the coating will walk a lot and often, that is, in places with high traffic. It should be noted that you can not put the carpet on the glue, if you lay it on a laminate or linoleum. The process itself looks like this: the glue is first applied to one half of the room, the spatula is leveled, and then covered with a coating, smooth. Then you should wait for all this to dry up, and then the same is done with the second half.
The last method is glueless laying of .This case will require additional knowledge and skill, because you have to do the stretching - stretching. On the perimeter of fixing racks - influenza. On them there are fasteners, usually, it is carnations on which the cover is pulled. Of course, you do not have to walk on a suspended carpet, under it is a substrate, which, in fact, you are also tight. It is believed that this method is the most convenient and does not require thorough preparation of the floor, but, as you can see, technically it can be done technically with difficulty, but the workers do better with it.