Laying Tack Strips Carpet

How to install carpet 1.

Laying tack strips carpet.

Nail the tack strips to the wooden subfloor or if installing carpet over concrete use masonry tacks or an epoxy adhesive attach the strips to the floor. Next unroll the carpet padding from one side of the room to the other and slice it off with a box cutter. Loosely lay out the carpet in approximately the correct position. For novice diyers the temptation is to shove the carpet tack strips sometimes called tackless.

The less moving this monster of a piece the better. Again these tools are easy for a professional to use but can be tricky for a novice to use correctly. Some foam back carpets simply lie on the floor but most standard jute back carpets are laid over a separate pad and are stretched and attached to the floor along the perimeter. Install tack strips with a gap between the wall.

They are attached to the subfloor around the perimeter of the room to provide the anchor point for the edges of the carpeting to be gripped. Tack down the padding with a stapler. Install the carpet tack strips photo by ryan hulvat. To install carpet start by nailing the tack strips to the floor using 2 nails for each strip.

Using a hammer nail down tack strips around the perimeter of the room. Our flooring specialist ron demonstrates and explains what it takes to install a carpet tack strip on a basement concrete floor. Getting the carpet over the spikes of the tack strip requires the use of a carpet stretcher and carpet kicker. Tack strips are strips of wood with sharp pointed tacks.