How to install carpet, quick and dirty

[DarkSkies]

8. Finish your cuts and position the carpet into place. It's good that it doesn't fit too snugly against the wall, as this could cause it to bind in the middle.

9. If your carpet is higher end, and thicker, you will definitely need to rent a "kicker" which helps you position the carpet as you bang out the small humps with your knees. If you're doing that, also make sure the carpet hangs correctly on the carpet tack molding on the perimeter. Again, it's important that it doesn't go exactly to the edge if you are putting 1/4 round on top of it.

10. After you have made all the cuts, smoothed out all the slight bulges, check all areas before you re-install your 1/4 round molding. This is the last part of the job, but one that if done carefully will make it so that people will not be able to tell the difference between you doing it and a professional installer doing it.

[DarkSkies]

11. Re-install your 1/4 round, starting from one side of the room and working your way to the other. Re-install all the transition moldings carefully.

12. Stand back and admire your work.

(sorry there are no more pics, we did this in a hurry and were tired)

[hookset]

That carpet looks great. Nice job of installing.

On a second note: In life I have found that getting the job done is not always the best way to go. If you do a poor job just to get it done, you will be having to redue the job in the near future. Double time is not a $ saver.

[DarkSkies]

On a second note: In life I have found that getting the job done is not always the best way to go.

Hey Hookset, no offense taken, my perspective comes from having an effed up family. One of my family members takes 4 weeks or more to paint one room, and can't hold a job because everything he does has to be perfect. So that's where my comments come from, though I do agree with yours as well.

[buckethead]

One of my family members takes 4 weeks or more to paint one room, and can't hold a job because everything he does has to be perfect. So that's where my comments come from, though I do agree with yours as well.

dark, I don't know if that's even possible to take 4 weeks to paint one room. Are you talking about framing and construction, or just the paint?

[DarkSkies]

Buckethead, sadly I'm just talking about the painting. And then after it's done, there's lots of chatter about what a great job it is. In the real world ya can't make a profit if it takes ya 4 weeks to paint one room. It ain't like it's the Sistine Chapel, just one lousy bedroom. This is the world I live in, lucky me.