I'm laying carpet and underlay in my room today. Is there anything I should know to avoid that may cause me a headache?
You'll soon realize that the room's corners aren't square.
>>2787057That's the least of my concerns. The floor isn't even level so I have to put furniture in unconventional places, e.g. desk.
>>2787053did you clean an tighten the subfloor?
>>2787064Yup. I fixed a couple of loose boards and cleaned thoroughly.
>>2787053Phenol and petrolether cause nasty headaches, so avoid those
>>2787077ops underlay also looks like verry sus recycling material made from old matresses and car seats.
>>2787053Buy the best underlay they have.
>>2787053read the instructionsleave gaps around the edges for expansion
>>2787112Lol carpet doesn't need gaps, you're thinking of hard flooring.
>>2787128You've never seen a carpet ripples?
>>2787130Not in my house, nope.
>>2787104>ops underlay also looks like verry sus recycling material made from old matresses and car seats.you cant be this fucking stu.. nevermind I forgot im on 4chan.pretty sure OP googled it and posted some random image and thats not his exact floornow, go back to being the internets retarded potato and STFU
OP here. Thanks everyone for the pointers. With hindsight, the best advice I could have given myself would have been to use a better fucking knife. This Stanley FatMax knife is a piece of shit and made me borderline suicidal for a few hours.>>2787104Probs was made out of recycled materials to be honest.
>>2787053>Is there anything I should know to avoid that may cause me a headache?yes: don't put carpet in
>>2787708Too late now but use a hard, easily cleaned surface and throw a rug down
>>2787063Why not just level the desk with those furniture anti scratch sticker things?
>>2787708Now you know why they call them.>Carpet knives Sharp pointy knives are useful for everything else except fucking carpet.
>>2787053i may be too late to the party but i just did mine and i used too many staples on the underlay and i can feel some of them in certain areas of the room, next time im just gonna tack it in the corners
Its called pad not under layment you ignorant hicks
>>2788740Thin carpet or huge staples?
>>2788895yes
>>2788751https://duckduckgo.com/?q=carpet+underlay
>>2787053>to avoid that may cause me a headache?use 100% organic non-GMO carpet and underlayment flooring materials so your not afixiated with poisouns dases from syntheric chemicals that most carpoets are made of these days
>>2787112>>2787130You're supposed to stretch the carpet real tight. Pros use some sort of bar that extends across the room to push against the wall and stretch the carpet.
>>2789056I stretched some carpet last night
>>2789056Pros all have bad knees because the tool you're thinking of is actually this and just kicking the shit out of the carpet really hard.
>>2787053When you're finished installing yours, want to come over and do mine? :^)
>>2789159If you carpet guy is doing your whole house with a knee kicker then get a new carpet guy, anon was talking about a power stretcher.
>>2789168Yes I was.
>>2787063Wow, your floor is so uneven, that you have to put your furniture on your desk?
