![]() Place the knee kicker on one edge near the corner, approximately 10mm from the edge, push down and give the padded end a whack with your knee. Start in a corner that's diagonally opposite the door. You will need a carpet stretcher like this ROBERTS Deluxe G.T. Now you need to stretch the carpet before hooking it onto the gripper. Make sure you are left with around 50-75mm of excess on all edges. Now fold over the carpet on each wall or edge and cut off any large sections of carpet if necessary. This helps push the carpet into the corner. Push the carpet into a corner and use your sharp knife to make a vertical cut around 10-15cm. Make sure there is excess carpet at every edge. Once the carpet is laid out, put both feet on the carpet around 0.5m to 1m from the edge and do little forward jumps to help push the carpet towards the edges and flatten it out. ![]() Do the same on different edges if needed to get it into position. Unroll your carpet, start in a corner opposite the door, hold a corner of the carpet and with one foot under the carpet, pull it towards you and manoeuvre into place. When all your underlay is down get some heavy-duty tape to tape the joins together. ![]() Make sure not to overlap edges, the underlay needs to be smooth and flat. Now get your underlay and lay on the floor up to the edge of the grippers and cut with a sharp knife like this STANLEY FATMAX Retractable Folding Knife from Amazon to fit. You can use newspaper like carpet fitters did in the old days or even lining paper for walls. Add your underlayīefore you lay the underlay, lay down a floor lining paper to help protect the carpet from dust, add an extra layer of insulation and stop the underlay sticking to the floorboards. Remember to remove the fixing nails first. If there are difficult to reach areas with a hammer – like under a radiator – you can glue the gripper into place with an adhesive like this Evo-Stik Gripfill Max adhesive from B&Q. Make sure that the angled edge is pointing towards the skirting board and nail in place. Use a piece of wood as a spacer to help get the same measurement around the whole room. You might want to wear heavy-duty gloves as there are a lot of pins in the gripper rods. Place them around the perimeter of the room – cut where needed – around 8mm from the skirting board. ![]() ![]() Carpet grippers like these FloorPro Premium Carpet Gripper Rods from Amazon are essential for laying a carpet. ![]()
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