Fitting Carpet Under Skirting Boards

With carpet they are more flexible in installation so the skirting boards can go in before and the carpet butted up against them with a tad of stretching.

Fitting carpet under skirting boards.

If you are planning to lay a new wooden or tiled floor do this before you fit the skirting boards for the neatest finish. The beading that you have will be stopping the edge of the carpet from getting trapped because it is angled away from the carpet and the carpet has nothing to push against so the edge just. The gripper is laid about 1 4 away from the skirting board and the carpet gets trapped in the space between the skirting board and the edge of the gripper. Actually not quite true.

The quads go in last with wooden flooring but the skirting boards are put in with a small gap to the floor. 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. Fit carpet up to skirting. Unroll your carpet and lay it loosely into position on the floor.

Use a hacksaw to cut the gripper to size. Using the knee kicker with teeth set so they just bite into the carpet work along one edge of the carpet cutting into the skirting board as you go. If you re carpeting fit the skirting boards first. See the other.

Carpet gripper comes with nails or screws already in situ so hammer in the nails or screw in the screws. You are now ready to fit your carpet. Cut the carpet down to size if you need to but leave at least 50mm extra around the edges. Place the gripper rods 2 3 of the carpet thickness away from the skirting boards with the pins pointing towards the skirting boards.