Carpet

[Tom.]

Right, I've just built a hearth for my cast iron fireplace (and very nice it is too). The trouble is, the hearth is much bigger than the old one, therefore I had to cut the carpet back.

There is enough carpet flopping over the top of the hearth to get it trimmed and looking nice, but I don't want to pay someone for this, as I reckon if I can fit a fireplace and repair a chimney breast, a bit of carpet shouldn't be too difficult.

So, where do I start? Grip rods I presume, the underlay is aplenty, whats the method? What are those big heavy handle stretching things used for that I've seen carpet fitters use?

It doesn't have to be perfect. Just acceptable at first glance.

 

[breezer]

do you mean

one of these?
its calleda knee kicker

you put down the carpet gripper, s the hooks face away from you, lay underlay so it sits just before carpet gripper, trim carpet to edge of carpet gripper, put knee kicker down and knee it.

the knee kicker has 100s of tiny hooks, these grab the carpet, as you knee the kicker it strethces the carpet over the gripper and job done (almost) when you have done a big piece you then push carpet down with a special tool that looks like a blunt bolster chiesel

or at least its done similar to that, i suggest you try it first

 

[Tom.]

ahhh so thats how its done.

The difficult bit of laying a carpet I imagine is cutting it to fit the room. Well thats done, so this looks dead easy.

I wonder if I can hire one of those knee kicker things.

 

[breezer]

I wonder if I can hire one of those knee kicker things.

yes, there is a little wheel on the back of the "head" it hires and lowers the teeth.














seriously , what i said is true, an yes you can also hire them

 

[king.module]

don't know if this is any use to you but i've used an ordinary flat scraper to push a whole section of a carpet down before - you can't whack it with real force or you'll damage the carpet but kicking/dragging the carpet towards/over the grippers and using the scraper worked for me and you canna tell which part of the room i did.... well actually you can if you walk around enough because i left a piece of plaster under the underlay

just an idea...