One of the most popular ways of warming the flooris laying on it a carpet. Laying the carpet with your own hands has gained high popularity. There is a wide variety of materials on the composition and method of manufacture. Make it from natural or artificial threads, it is possible and a mixture of wool with other components. But before you consider the laying of the carpet, it is necessary to find out what kinds of material this material is divided into. 
Types of carpet.
What kinds of carpet is
Carpet with woolen thread has a goodelasticity, perfectly cleaned, waterproof, but it wears out quickly, and it has a very high price. Of the synthetic, the most practical is the nylon carpet, it behaves beautifully during cleaning, soft, durable, but also has a high price. If you want to save a budget, it is better to choose a coating of polyester or acrylic, but its properties will be worse. Of the latest technology is very popular carpeting from suprima and terclone, in quality it is very similar to wool, but has greater resistance to wear due to special treatment. It is desirable that the carpet has a substrate of rubber or felt to provide additional heat and conceal possible defects on the floor surface. A great variety of this material has on color, pattern and length of pile. When choosing a carpet, we must pay special attention to the strength of the color and density of the pile, so that the coating serves you as long as possible and does not upset negative surprises. Choosing the material for your taste and capabilities, you can begin work on the insulation of your sex. Before buying, make sure to measure the room, taking into account all the niches and openings, and add to the figures obtained about 10% for the fit. Back to contents</a>
Tool for work
Tools for laying the carpet. Laying the carpet is done after the room is repaired. It is important that there are no building debris and dirt in the room. You can lay the coating on any surface, but it should be flat. Before you get started, you need to prepare a tool that you might need if you decide to do it yourself:
- construction knife;
- Double-sided tape;
- Reiki and a set of nails;
- a metal ruler, a pencil and a tape measure;
- spatula for glue;
- a hammer;
- soft rag and degreaser;
- screwdriver and screws;
- heavy roller;
- knee stretcher.
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Preliminary preparation
Before moving on to a detailed reviewbasic methods of laying the carpet, should be carefully prepared. Taking into account a few simple tips will greatly prolong the life of the carpet, and improve the characteristics of the floor. 
Stages of laying the carpet.
So, when the preparatory work is over,You can do laying your own carpet on the floor. There are currently several ways, four of them - the most reliable and common, so we will dwell on them in more detail. Back to contents</a>
Laying Carpet on Scotch tape
The first method is to fix the material toDouble-sided tape. This option is considered to be one of the most budgetary, since it does not involve the use of additional expensive materials. This laying by one's own hands has both its drawbacks and advantages. 
Laying the carpet on a double-sided scotch. The shortcomings include the fragility of such fastening of the material on the floor. This is because scotch is very sensitive to temperature changes, so it can quickly deform or peel off. But even in ideal conditions, the glue will dry over time, and then it will have to be reinforced. But there are advantages here. First of all, this is the speed of stacking. Still there is no special substrate for carpet. The instruction here is extremely simple. So, first the surface should be thoroughly degreased. This should be done all over the floor, not just in places where it is supposed to stick an adhesive tape. After that, take a double-sided adhesive tape and start to glue it on the floor. First make strips along the walls along the entire perimeter, retreating about 5 cm from each wall. And then with strips, the distance between which is about 5-7 cm, start filling the entire floor area. Please note that when gluing, do not immediately remove the upper protective layer from the scotch tape. When this is done, proceed to fixing the carpet. This is best done from the window to the door. Gradually remove the protective film from the tape. It should be tried to peel off in horizontal rows, so that you can gradually and as precisely as possible stick a carpet. The material is immediately pressed by hands to the surface as much as possible to ensure optimal setting. By using this technology, the carpet will be fixed well in the middle of the floor. And even if you have to re-do everything after a while, then there is no need to tear all the scotch. It will be enough only to peel old stripes around the perimeter at the walls, replacing them with new ones and making a repeated fixation. Back to contents</a>
Fixing the carpet with a plinth
Another simple and cheap method islaying their own material on the floor with subsequent fixation only along the perimeter of the walls. You do not even need scotch here. Do not align or degrease the floor before this. But there are a number of very significant shortcomings:
But if you have a small room where you do not needwill perform all of the above actions, then you can make a stack by yourself using this method. First, the floor is cleaned, the substrate is laid. Then the carpet is laid on top of it so that the allowances of the same size remain on all sides. 
The procedure for fixing the carpet with a plinth. Now the most difficult - you need to fix the carpet around the perimeter by attaching a floor or wall plinth over it. The difficulty is that in the process of work, the coating should be constantly spread. But if you do it together, it will be much easier and faster to do it. During installation of skirting boards, special attention should be given to the corners. Take care that the carpet does not bend over them. And more: you need to cut off excess surpluses just before the final installation of the plinth, otherwise the ugly sticking edges of the carpet will be visible later. Back to contents</a>
Stacking with glue and stretching method
The last two methods are stretching and gluing- are more laborious and expensive. This laying of carpet is not often used in everyday life. Usually, these are common methods for laying carpet in public places, hotels and sanatoria. Stretching involves securing the carpet together with the base under it with the help of special thin slats. They are mounted both along the perimeter at the walls, and in the middle of the room. The equal distance between the slats and the ideal tension of the fabric allow for a very long service life. But it is very difficult to implement such a laying yourself. This is due to the laboriousness of the process, when several people are required to pull on the carpet and perfectly fix it, so laying one's own hands here will be quite difficult. Laying the carpet on the adhesive involves the use of expensive glue and the presence of an ideal floor. On the clean floor apply a special notched trowel adhesive from the edge of the wall, gradually moving to the center of the room. The glue is applied to the carpet immediately so that it does not have to be moved later. The linen should be pressed to the surface as much as possible and smoothed, so that there is no swelling under it. To make perfectly smooth joints, adjacent pieces of carpet (if the cloth is not integral) should be glued to each other with an overlap of about 1-2 cm. After drying, the overlap is cut off exactly by a knife, the edge is re-greased under the bottom with glue and pressed. Laying the carpet with your own hands on the glue is complete! So, the basic ways of laying the carpet with their shortcomings, advantages and features of the process itself are considered. Before the process itself, you need to weigh everything carefully and choose for yourself the most acceptable at a price and labor-consuming method of laying.
