Fitting Carpet Skirting Board

For wooden floors use 10mm nails or screws.

Fitting carpet skirting board.

Watch our step by step video showing how to fit skirting boards with expert advice and top tips to help you complete the job with confidence. Hold the carpet down with one hand and with the other use a stanley knife with a sharp blade to cut along the carpet edge. Fit skirting 1st keep gap between floor base and skirt to a minimum by doing the normal thing by that i mean the underlay stops before the gripper the gripper is 25mm away from skirt edge and so if you must have carpet under. Place the gripper rods 2 3 of the carpet thickness away from the skirting boards with the pins pointing towards the skirting boards.

Use a hacksaw to cut the gripper to size. Carpet gripper comes with nails or screws already in situ so hammer in the nails or screw in the screws. Apply masking tape along the length of the carpet skirting board without any pressure and make sure about 1 2 1 a finger of tape is against the skirting board. Posted 9 years ago deadlydarcy member pull them back on themselves without creasing them.

Any existing orders will be honoured until 14 december 2018. This video will show you how to paint baseboards or skirting boards on carpet there is a little trick to doing it. Our homefit service will no longer be available from the 9 july 2018. Leave leave a big book on them for long enough.

Then take scraper not filling knife or any other thin but rounded object you can find and push the tape down between the skirting board and the carpet. Even though it s n. Use a tool called a carpet tucker and firmly crease the carpet against the skirting to mark a fold line. You should start fitting your carpet along the longest wall and work back towards to door.

Carpet fitters like to have a clean straight edge to work to and in the future you won t have to tear the skirting boards off if you want to change the carpet. Choose skirting paint colour to match carpet colour.