Carpet: Methods of styling and care

Carpet is a warm and soft flooring. Carpet today is considered the most common material that is used to decorate sex in public places and apartments. With the laying of the carpet you will have no problems. This process is simple and relatively short -lived. Thermal insulation qualities of the material are very high. Carpet is able to maintain heat with a layer of air created between the pile and the dense base. And therefore, even cold winters in your house will always be comfortable and warm.

Table of contents

See also: Types of carpet (article)

1. Preparation for laying carpet
   • The room froze
   • Preparation of the room
2. Methods of laying carpet
   • Carpet laying with adhesive tape
   • Direct gluing of carpet
   • Free flooring of carpet
   • Laying carpet on a substrate
   • Stretching
3. Carpet care
   • Regular cleaning
   • Periodic cleaning
   • Stain removal

​​Preparation for laying carpet

Proper laying of such flooring as carpet is the main condition for the long period of its useful service. Of course, it is better to trust professionals, however, if you follow the instructions below, you can do it yourself.

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First, it is necessary to conduct accurate measurements of the room in which it is planned to lay the carpet. Properly made measurements of the premises is the key to success in this difficult undertaking. Measurements should be done, given all the features of the room, window and doorways, radiators, the location of the niches.

Even if you have a technical plan for the apartment, it may not be written in it. The reality is that there are often many inaccuracies in the technical documentation, and in the end you will buy too much or too little carpet. Only after you make a sketch yourself, go to the store at the floor covering!

Preparation of the room

After you delivered Carpen from the store to your home, prepare the floor surface for laying carpets in the most thorough way, cleansing it of dust. The base should be even and clean, dry and smooth. In addition, there should be no cracks, various substances and small objects on the surface, because they can interfere with the laying process.

An important point that should not be neglected when laying the flooring - in the room should not walk through drafts. Otherwise, problems may arise when laying, such as folds and waves on the coating, which will be very difficult to get rid of in the future.

The temperature in the room when working with carpet should be at least 18 degrees Celsius, and the floor temperature is not less than plus 15. The average relative humidity should not exceed 65%, and it is better that it is set at 40%. Similar climatic conditions must be maintained for 3 days before preparatory work and at least 7 days after laying the carpet.

Before direct laying, it is better to hold the carpet in rolled form in the room for several hours, and preferably a day. The carpet in any case should be acclimatized before laying. Rolls are recommended to be stored lying, in other words - in a horizontal position. When working with carpet tiles, storage of packages is allowed, but not more than 8 packs.

It is imperative to ensure that only one batch of carpet is used in one room. This remark relates to carpet coatings both in tiles and rolls. When working with pieces of carpet on the floor, marking stripes should be carried out, given that the number of seams should be minimal in the finished coating. Joints should be located along the main movement. If possible, the carpet is located perpendicular to the window opening in order to make the joints less noticeable.

Methods of laying carpet

When all preparatory work is completed, the carpet is laid. The advantage of the carpet is that it will be put on any surface, even on concrete. As a rule, it is customary to cover the room with one piece of carpet. If the room has a large area, you will have to take several pieces of material - long, parallel to each other. When combining the parts, make sure that the direction of the pile and drawing are preserved.

There are several popular ways of laying carpet in the room, each of which depends on the conditions and parameters of the room. The most popular methods are presented below.

Carpet laying with adhesive tape

There are many misconceptions, one of them says that an ordinary carpet and carpet are laid the same way. Do not believe it, this is not at all like that: this material fits exclusively under
Skirting board for carpet. You need to start by laying on the floor of a double -sided adhesive tape. Spread the carpet on the surface on the surface, but do not immediately strive to spread it perfectly, most likely unnecessary parts will remain in the corners. There is nothing shameful in this, fit under the required size later.

It is customary to start laying the carpet with the corners and move, slowly, along the walls, towards other corners. The main thing is to pay attention to niches, window and doorways. In this situation, it is better to overdo it than ruin everything. Filigreely adjust the carpet under them. Then cut the extra pieces of coating. This can be done with a flat board, starting from the middle and moving towards the corners.

The firmware present in the floor carpet is better to wrap with colorless tape so that it does not exfoliate around the edges in the future. When laying the carpet on the threshold, special accuracy is required. Do not perfectly equalize the coating. First, make diagonal cuts, and it will immediately be seen how much the excess material will have to be removed. Finally, carefully press the carpet with a screwdriver, see that the coating is not damaged, since it is easily torn.

Direct gluing of carpet

Laying carpet with glue is a more time -consuming type of laying, but fixation in this case will be much better. First process the surface with special glue. As a rule, high -quality adhesive for carpet is immediately ready for use after opening, it quickly connects the cladding and is safe when working.

However, it is not recommended to open glue openly for more than fifteen minutes, because its quality will worsen significantly. The glue is applied with a special gear spatula to reduce the formation of wrinkles, waves and pickles.

Gently put the carpet on the surface covered with glue. Some advise to process only corners, but you will very soon feel all the charm of such a floor covering yourself. The only minus of adhesive styling is the difficulty of the flooring, because glued carpet is not so easy to tear off.

Never save glue, but reliably fix it with the surface around the entire perimeter of the coating.
If unwanted stains of glue remained after work, remove them with a damp cloth. The dried glue is wiped with xylol.

Free flooring of carpet

The Besecleic way of laying carpet is the most inexpensive. The coating can be spread in the room by cutting the rug required in size and making an overlock of the carpet. Such a rug is easily removed and cleaned, but the coating will create some interference when walking. And to cut a small piece of carpet, you often have to take an excess coating, overpaying for it.

A carpet sheet is scattered with a climb of the walls by 5 10 centimeters, after which it is rolled with a roller. It is recommended to start from the center towards the walls. After that, the excess carpet can be removed. After laying, the material at the doorways is fixed with metal rails. The final stroke of the free flooring of the flooring is the installation of skirting boards.

This method is quite good because it provides for the use of a small number of tools. And the technology of styling itself is simple. The method can be implemented in small rooms. But the carpet can be sent in this way exclusively in small areas. In addition, the secondary use of carpet will be difficult.

Laying carpet on a substrate

Often the carpet is laid on the substrate. In turn, the carpet substrate is necessary to level the floor surface, reduce the load on the feet, ensure additional sound insulation and thermal insulation of the floor, increase the life of the flooring and achieve the required level of the floor height, when the carpet itself is not enough.

The larger the load in the room on the floor, the more you need to take tightly, for example, you can use polyethinol or polyurethane foam. Often take a substrate with a thickness of 5-10 millimeters. First, the substrate is glued to the floor, and then the carpet is glued to it. However, such styling is difficult to do without work experience. In addition, additional costs of cash and time will be needed.

Stretching

This styling method was developed by English designers who drew attention to such a property of carpet as elasticity the ability to stretch well. The laying of the carpet is carried out using the flupees of the rails with 2 rows of nails, which are clogged at an acute angle of 45 degrees and stitches of tools for pulling the material.

The turn -since is used in rooms with a large area, and the knee device in small rooms. Reiki is attached around the perimeter of the room, fixing the canvas on them. This method is practiced where it is necessary to change the carpet of carpet very often, for example, the children's carpet is often changed, and if the decision is not suitable for laying the carpet on a bilateral adhesive tape. This method is also suitable for laying the coating on the stairs.

With this method of laying the carpet, glue is saved and the maximum durability of his service is achieved. However, it will not be possible to apply this option for rooms with dimensions in width or a length of more than 5 meters.

Carpet care

During the operation of the carpet, timely and proper care is of great importance. The technology for caring for this flooring consists of regular and periodic cleaning, as well as timely removal of spots.

Regular cleaning

Regular cleaning of the carpet is performed several times a week with a vacuum cleaner. Carpet, which is manufactured using natural materials, cannot be categorically cleaned with a detergent vacuum cleaner. The villi of such a carpet is poorly ventilated. As a result, moisture is held. In addition, it is difficult to get rid of the feeling of dampness. It is convenient to use a vacuum cleaner with a rotating brush when caring for carpet. Dry cleaning with special powder and once a month cleaning with a damp cloth is possible.

Carpet made of artificial material must be cleaned regularly, as well as carpeted material. It is permissible to use a washing vacuum cleaner, while very carefully collecting water. The excess water that remains on the carpet can blur the solution, which is contained in the material and prevents dirt formation.

For cleaning the carpet, the broom is not suitable, because with its help you can’t get dirt that gathered in the pile. The so-called mugs-gryazelovushki can serve against the formation of dirt with a warning measure, which are customary to lay at the entrance to the room with carpet.

Periodic cleaning

Periodic cleaning of the carpet is necessarily carried out once every six months, in the process of such care a deep dry cleaning of the carpet is performed. The procedure needs to be trusted only to professionals who remove all the dirt from the carpet and process the flooring with a special solution that gives the material the mudding properties. But because of an attempt to arrange deep cleaning with your own hands, you can completely ruin the carpet.

Stain removal

The struggle with spots completes the relay on the fight for durable and pure carpet. When you appear on the floor covering of spots, it is recommended to immediately remove them. To do this, you must have a set of special tools for removing spots at hand.

When removing spots from the carpet, you need to adhere to such rules:

1. A dense substance is removed with a spoon. The movement of the device is directed to the center of the spot.
2. The stain should be wetted with a clean towel, without rubbing;
3. The spot must be removed with a damp cloth or a sponge moistened in a special remedy. Movements are directed to the center of the spot.
4. After such manipulations, it is worth washing with clean water the place where there was a stain, and wait until the surface dries.

It is possible to remove almost all types of spots on their own, except for traces left from shoe cream. It will not be possible to remove paint, various food dyes and rust with your own hand. To remove such spots, it is better to seek help from specialists from dry cleaning or a cleaning company. It should always be remembered that timely cleaning and regular carpet care will extend its useful operation at times and will allow you to enjoy comfort in the house for many years.

Thus, the carpet remains one of the popular floor coatings recently. Special roll material with the pile present is especially often used in bedrooms, children's and rest rooms. The laying of carpet is not as simple as it might seem at first glance. This work differs in a number of features, and in order not to spoil the material, follow the above instructions. And the carpet, laid with his own hand, will recreate special comfort in your house and fill the home with an atmosphere of heat.