Carpet Floor Preparation

Before you can install carpet tiles you must prepare the existing floor.

Carpet floor preparation. Before you install your plywood subfloor first calculate the room s square footage to find out how much flooring you ll need to buy. Do this by multiplying the room s length by its width. Carpet installations usually require a little floor preparation. The care that you take with flooring preparation will help your new carpet to last as long as possible.

Pull toward you to detach it from the sharp tack strip that holds it to the floor along the wall. Give yourself enough time to prepare the floor properly. Any kind of persistent moisture will allow mold to get a foothold and soon ruin carpet or wood flooring. Use a utility knife with a sharp new blade to cut through the carpet backing.

I use my scraper and scrap everywhere. In order to prevent moisture and mildew from penetrating the carpeting it is important to prepare your concrete basement floor prior to the installation. Some more floor preparation scraping and sweeping. You then have two options depending on your circumstances.

For below grade slabs assume that the concrete floor will get damp at some point. When the corner of the carpet is loose use your gloved hands to pull along the length of the wall. And both of the options use the same layers of 1 2 in. Floor preparation can be pretty time consuming hopefully there won t be any surprises that make this task any longer.

If you re having the new carpet professionally installed on monday morning don t start working on the floor sunday evening. Many homes replace their carpet approximately every 10 to 15 years. Give yourself at least a day for basic cleaning and baseboard painting and longer for bigger projects like sealing and patching. To replace an existing carpet remove all metal edgings.

After i finish with removing the carpet tackstrip and padding i check the floor for any lumps of drywall mud or concrete lumps. The subfloor surface must be dry free of debris and as smooth as possible. Moulding and trim can be fragile and despite their best efforts your installation team may break a few pieces. Once the work begins your installer will be responsible for removing and disposing of your old carpet.

In some cases you can also install carpet tiles over existing wood tile or vinyl flooring so long as the existing flooring is no more than an inch thick. They will remove any moulding or trim in the room and prep the subfloor for installation. Pull up a few feet of carpet and fold it over. Then pry one corner of the carpet loose from the tackless strip and pull up the entire piece.

Once you have measured asked for estimates and chosen a new carpet you must remove the old carpet. Plywood carpet pad and carpet as shown.