How to lay carpets

Many home floor decorations now use carpets, which are both beautiful and practical. Next, PChouse will tell you how to lay the carpet.

1. Ground treatment

Carpets are generally laid on wooden floors or cement floors. In order to ensure the quality of carpet laying, the ground must be treated clean and smooth in advance. Any pits or uneven areas on the ground should be smoothed with sandpaper, then filled with putty, and then rinsed with clean water.

2. Laying method

Unfixed type: Unfixed carpet laying means cutting and splicing the carpet into the required shape, laying the whole piece on the ground, and just trimming the corners. , does not need to be fixed to the ground. This laying method is suitable for places where the carpet needs to be rolled up frequently or where heavy objects are not moved.

Fixed: The fixed paving method is to cut the carpet and splice it into a whole piece, and then fix it around the carpet. There are two ways to fix it: one is to stick the carpet to the ground with adhesive or double-sided tape; the other is to install wooden strips with nails pointing upward around the floor of the room, and then attach the carpet to the ground. Fastened to wooden strips.

3. Carpet patchwork

Method 1: Use needle and thread to connect the edges of the two carpets.

Method 2: Place the adhesive tape at the seams of the carpet. One person uses an iron to sol the paper, and the other person immediately presses the carpet onto the sol adhesive tape.

4. Operation sequence

(1) Measure the size of the room and cut the carpet. First use a box ruler to measure the dimensions of the room, and then piece together the carpet according to this measurement. One thing to note is that the length of each carpet section must be 5cm longer than the length of the room, and the width should exclude the size of the thread fasteners that need to be cut off the edge of the carpet. When cutting the carpet material, the weaving direction of the interface carpet should be consistent to avoid creating yin and yang sides.

(2) Splicing carpet. After cutting the carpet, use one of the two methods above to splice the carpet. When splicing, pay attention to fixing one end of the carpet, and then use a tensioner to straighten the carpet before splicing.

(3) Fix and clean. The carpet at the corner should be trimmed to the size of the corner with a wall edge knife, then use a flat shovel to drive the carpet into the upward nails of the wooden clamps to fix it, and then seal it with pressure strips, so that the carpet laying is completed. Remember to vacuum the carpet when you're done.

The above is the method of laying carpets. Friends who need decoration can refer to it. I hope the above content is helpful to everyone.