Trim And Stretch Carpet

Stretch carpet if your wall to wall begins to bunch wrinkle or otherwise come up short try this strategy to restore its looks comfort and safety.

Trim and stretch carpet.

This is an un backed automotive carpet meaning that it has no rubber latex backing like most cut pile and loop pile carpets do. Lay the carpet down. Set the power stretcher down over the part of the carpet you are working with and want to be stretched. Edging carpet along a wall is perhaps the most important part of carpet installation.

A messy or lumpy carpet edge is easily noticeable and may get worse with time. Superflex or ozite carpet stretches over any humps or molds in the floor of your vehicle. Using a carpet cutter and a utility knife photos 10 and 11 cut off the excess after the carpet is completely stretched. Trim the padding with a carpet cutter if you haven t already done so with a utility knife.

Embed the carpet edge firmly in the tack strip and under baseboards by forcing the front edge of the carpet cutter into the carpet and dragging it along the wall.