Carpeting: how to choose, to lay and care?

The market offers a wide range of floor coverings, and if we have previously written about linoleum and laminate, In this article we pay attention to another excellent material - carpet.

Most often the carpet can be found in hotels and hostels, but in houses and apartments he spreads unfairly rare, although this material is pleasant to the touch, durable and eco-friendly.
And there you have the first secret of longevity: the shorter the nap of the carpet, the more reliable.

How to lay carpet?

The principle of laying the carpet is absolutely similar to that of laying linoleum: it is important to buy a carpet width slightly greater than the width or the length of your room.

By the length or width of the room is recommended add 1-2 cm on each sides: Carpet has slozhivatsya property, and to lay his pieces can not.

Roll out the carpet in the room so that its edge stand up on the wall. If the floor made of concrete or screed, the carpet is better to put on a non-woven laminate substrate.

After laying the carpet along the walls, you need to crop it so that the edges do not reach the edges of the walls

5-10 mm - carpet must mature 1-2 days and all his wrinkles that appear during storage, must go.

There are two ways of laying carpet:

• Free installation
• Laying on the glue

at free installation stele carpet without bonding, only the plinth are mounted. This method is suitable for simple rooms.

Laying on the glue, as the name implies, it is more difficult and requires pre-promazyvaniya floor glue.

Despite the complexity of this method is laid carpet in the children's rooms and places where there is the possibility of bias (eg where there is a computer chair on wheels).

Glue is applied to carpeting to the floor and smeared 4 -millimetrovoy comb and covered with sheet of carpet.

BONUS:

Do you want to buy a quality carpet? Choose a model:
- short pile;
- a base from nylon yarn;
- high density.

Carpet does not require special care: for high-quality cleaning using a simple and powerful vacuum cleaner Vanish.