Roll back the top piece of carpet.

How to trim a carpet. Cut away any excess carpet material after adequately stretching it across the floor. A carpet cutter trims the carpet even with the wall or baseboard (photo 10). Install tack strips about 12mm away from the edge of the tile.

Simply peeling the carpet back and cutting the underside of it along that border you just marked should work just fine. Pull back about 3 feet of carpet and use a utility knife to cut it along the fold. Apply a bit of hot glue to where the binding tape meets on.

Then, once the tile installation project is over, you. Instead, you should roll the edge of the carpet back from the tile. This excess is usually due to an extension of the carpet due to the buckling and wrinkling.

Sand and clean your baseboards. Cut the carpet into strips. Use your hand to firmly press the carpeting down onto the pointy spikes of the tack strips below.

Keep the line as straight as possible,. (cut from the back of the carpet, which provides an easier surface to work with than. Mark and cut the first edge.

A simple tool called a hand trimmer, placed between the carpet and baseboard, allows you to trim carpet along a wall with perfect alignment before tucking it. Lifting and slashing simultaneously should allow you to cut large pieces quickly. Every few feet, move back and grab the loose edge again.