Why Should You Not Install Carpet On Your Own, Even During COVID-19

Sitting at home during the pandemic may have made you realize one thing; you either need to install a carpet to protect your precious floor from scratches or you need to replace the existing one if it's old. For both the situations, the first thing that may have come to your mind is how can you really call us or any other company for performing the carpet installation services at your home, especially when  COVID-19 is becoming scary with every passing day?

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With all confusion, a lot of homeowners also decide to opt for doing the carpet installation themselves. However, doing so is not easy at all. In fact, it’s like going at a war that you won’t be prepared for especially in these times of crisis.

Here are a few of the reasons why we wouldn’t recommend you to go for installing the carpet on your own.

Renting Special Tools

People usually think that installing the carpet is all about cutting out a few pieces of the fabric according to the dynamics of the room with a knife and just rolling them on the floors. But if you are going to believe the same misconception then you would just be asking for more trouble. While standard home tools like hammer, utility stapler, tin-snips, chalk-line, and utility knife are a necessity, still you need special carpet tools to get the job done including seam iron, power stretcher, and knee kicker. Hence, you will first have to rent them out in order to do the whole job properly.

Learning The Art To Use Carpet Stretcher

A lot of you might argue that one can install the carpet without the stretcher but honestly, the results are always going to be more disastrous. Proper stretching is almost 90% of good carpet installation and to make that happen you would have to learn both kinds of stretchers: the long power one and knee stretcher as well. 

Installing Tack Strips For The Gaps

Tack strips can be identified as strips of wood that have sharply pointed tacks at the front. More often than not, Dryers shove the strip against the wall or the board which is a wrong practice when compared to how professional carpet installation services teams do it in Jefferson County KY. You always should have extra space if you want to tuck the edges of the carpet over the strips. Besides that, the gap should also be slightly less than the thickness of the carpet so that the tucked part remains in place for a long time.

Buying An Extra 5 Percent

You are going to cut and experiment with a patterned carpet and therefore you may have also read on the internet to buy an extra 5% percent of the overall carpet for that. That is just another additional cost along with others which doesn’t make DIY a suitable option for you.