Trim And Stretch Carpet

Lay the carpet down.

Trim and stretch carpet.

Trim the padding with a carpet cutter if you haven t already done so with a utility knife. A messy or lumpy carpet edge is easily noticeable and may get worse with time. Edging carpet along a wall is perhaps the most important part of carpet installation. Set the power stretcher down over the part of the carpet you are working with and want to be stretched.

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. Using a carpet cutter and a utility knife photos 10 and 11 cut off the excess after the carpet is completely stretched. Also called super flex carpet ozite or stretch carpet. Then lay down the carpet over the padding.

This is an un backed automotive carpet meaning that it has no rubber latex backing like most cut pile and loop pile carpets do.