How to trim carpet at home

Carpet is an important element in the interior of a room. We will look at how to mark it correctly and which tool to cut it in this article.

What is best to use for cutting carpet?

In order for the flooring to lie flat, it must first be cut correctly. Trimming should only be done with special tools; let’s look at each of them.

Carpet knife

In everyday life it is necessary to have a cutting tool such as a knife. It is perfect for cutting flooring, opening boxes, etc. There are many models of this tool, and you can purchase it for a price starting from 300 rubles.

Electric scissors

This universal tool is specially designed for cutting carpet and linoleum. Its cost is 1000 rubles, at least. Unlike an ordinary knife, electric scissors have the following properties:

• safety when working with flooring material;
• ease of operation and high quality of work;
• compactness;
• ergonomic design;
• This tool runs on rechargeable batteries, which allows you to not depend on the mains.

Other tools

Of course, you can use scissors or an ordinary sharp knife, but you should only take into account the fact that carpet comes in different thicknesses and may not lend itself to these tools. Also, when cutting the flooring, use a shoe knife, a stationery knife with replaceable blades, or a scalpel.

The choice of cutting tool will depend, of course, on the preferences of the owner, but the consequences can also be different, because unevenness can ruin the blade.

ATTENTION You should not trim too much of the carpet at the edges.

How to cut carpet at home

In order to cut carpet at home, you should first take clear measurements, and then carefully and carefully trim off the excess material. In order for the carpet to be well laid on the floor surface, you need to take it by the edge and squeeze it between your legs, performing kicks with one foot. Then pull the material to the desired location so that the carpet lies tightly on the floor. The overlap on the walls should not exceed 5 centimeters; the excess is then cut off.

There are several steps to perform circumcision. First of all, spread the carpet on the floor and make markings on the underside of the floor covering.

To cut carpet correctly, you must adhere to the following recommendations:

1. It is necessary to cut the floor covering along the base of the threads, from the wrong side.
2. The marking of the perimeter of the room should first be transferred to the carpet.
3. For an accurate fit, leave a margin of about 10 centimeters. You can always trim off the excess.
4. Carpets with loop pile must be trimmed very carefully, otherwise the fabric may unravel.

Then:

• lay the material with the wrong side up and, using a meter ruler, draw out the corresponding dimensions of the perimeter of the room;
• using a cutting tool, cut off excess pieces of flooring;
• lay the carpet on the floor according to the markings.

There are several ways to trim carpet, so let’s look at another option.

Trimming carpet to fit baseboards

To cut the flooring under the baseboard, you need to lay the carpet along the longest wall in the room, end-to-end without overlap.

IMPORTANT! Before you get ready to adjust the carpet to the size of the room, it is recommended to lay it out and let it rest for about 2 days. During this time, all irregularities and bumps will be smoothed out.

The material should be smoothed out well, eliminating all irregularities and waves; you can even press down some places with a load. Then fit the canvas along the other three walls and, using a cutting tool, carefully make a puncture at the junction of the wall and the floor, moving from bottom to top.

After making the cut, you can mark points to cut off excess material along the walls. Next, carefully pressing the floor covering to the floor, we cut off the excess, while checking the correctness of the measurements every 10 cm.

In doorways, carpet trimming is done in a similar way.