How to choose and to lay carpet

Such a floor covering as carpet attracts many Russians. And this is quite understandable, since it has a huge number of obvious advantages. Of course, this stuff is not deprived and disadvantages, but everyone is free to choose what he thinks is the most appropriate for your home. We, in today's article we want to talk only about those methods that are used for carpet laying, so that you can choose the one that is best suited for you.

Varieties of carpet and the substrate under it

Carpeting can be natural or artificial. Naturally, variations of this natural material are more expensive and less durable, but their attraction is a high level of environmental cleanliness, excellent elasticity and good moisture resistance ease of cleaning. Synthetic same kinds of carpeting can be up to one and a half decades, but have drawbacks common to all man-made materials.

Thus, the choice of flooring should be done, based on the preferences of the family and financial considerations.

It should be remembered that the carpet should always be laid on the substrate, which should be as elastic. The presence of this material ensures:

• smoothing small roughness of a base;
• Longer carpet service;
• improved thermal and noise insulation qualities of the floor as a whole;
• reducing the load on the base.

Most often under the carpet is laid rubber, felt or polyurethane foam.

Terms of quality of laying carpet

Qualitative carpet styling can be ensured only when the following points are met:

• When carpet pre-entered in the room where he will be laid, so that it is fully adapted to the local microclimate;
• when stacking is performed at a humidity of 75% or more and at a temperature of more than + 15 ° C;
• when the base is perfectly dry, clean and smooth.

Carpet and methods for stacking

The carpet may be laid in five different ways, which differ between themselves and the degree of complexity required when performing this operation professionalism.

stretching

This method consists in laying under tension. Its advantage lies in the fact that the carpet can be laid off and always without prejudice to the integrity of the transferred to other facilities. Fixing is performed by means of special elements called gripper.

In the case of stretching fixture coating method is performed in the following sequence:

• on grippery stacked against one wall, put on edge kovrolinovogo cloth;
• second edge webs secured to the other gripper, which are pushed towards the opposite wall, which is accompanied by stacking tension carpet;
• at the end of the second tensioning gripper is mounted near the opposite wall.

Laying on the glue

From the name of the method it is understood that the carpet is mounted on the floor surface with a special adhesive. This method is ideal when the material is placed on a wooden floor. Its drawback is that at the end of the coating operation to dismantle virtually impossible. In the case of withdrawal it is necessary to simply throw away.

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While seemingly simple in execution of this method, there is a very important nuance. The fact that the carpet edges are never perfectly smooth., We have to do to join them and to splice site was perfectly straight line as follows:

• overlapping adjacent webs are glued value of 4-5 cm;
• in the middle of the incision overlap is produced over the entire depth of superposed webs;
• kovrolinovye cut tape removed, freeing the ideal joint line.

Upon completion of this operation the edges of both panels should be lifted, lubricate them with glue and carefully roll the roller.

Fixation using double-sided tape

Technology is the practical implementation of this method is quite clear: a roll of carpet is rolled out gradually to a pre-packed double sided tape and pressed tightly against him. The work should be carried out very carefully and thoroughly, as further tighten the material after laying is no longer possible.

Fixing the perimeter

This method consists in fixing the flooring using the baseboards. During the laying of the material it is lined so that it came to the surface of the wall. Then tuck it and fix skirting boards on the floor.

Free installation

In this case the carpet is used as a regular carpet, stacking on the floor without any fixation. Most often resort to such a method in a loggia, storage rooms and similar premises.

So, we briefly described the main ways to put a carpet in his apartment. Selection stacking method is determined, of course, the specific conditions, the user's needs, capabilities and prospects artist laid material further use.

R. S.

Among our readers, for sure, there are specialists who know the deeper intricacies of the issue. We will be glad and grateful if you leave in the comments some corrections and clarifications.