Putting Carpet Over Hardwood Floors
Use your spacers to ensure there is a expansion gap from the wall.
Putting carpet over hardwood floors. Cut the carpet padding in strips long enough to fit the length of the room. Set the first plank in the corner of the room working from. The hardwood floor provides a strong floor base so there is no need for underlayment.
Nail the strips around the perimeter of the room using masonry nails leaving a space between the tackless strip. Remove all furniture and items from the room and vacuum the carpet for a clean starting surface. This condition would make direct installation over the wood difficult.
The most common mistakes when placing carpet over hardwood flooring. Installing hardwood floors can cost between 9 and 12 per square foot compared with about 3 to 5 per square foot for carpet so some homeowners opt to install hardwood floors only in some. Set the tackless strips parallel to the.
Measure the thickness of the carpet. How to lay carpet without harming hardwood 1. Place spacers between the wall and the planks.
There are many times when it might make sense to place carpet over hardwood flooring. Measure and cut tackless strips to fit around the perimeter of the room where you are going to lay carpet. So we take possession in a couple weeks on a house and the bedrooms have original hardwood flooring in them.
Maybe you just like the look of carpet. Or maybe you ve just gotten tired of the rug s color and want to see what lies underneath. If the wood is heavily gapped these gaps must first be fixed.