It’s worth investing in a good underlay. Not only does it affect how your flooring looks and feels, it can also increase its longevity. It can also help to significantly reduce your energy bills by trapping heat and increasing insulation. Make sure you use 19mm nails to lessen the risk of piercing through the floorboard into pipes or cables. Push the sheets together and nail the edges where the sheets meet first. When you finish the first row of boards the last one will need to be cut to size. The first step is choosing the correct door bar for your needs. There are many different types, and in the case of laying carpet, it has to be suitable for carpet. In other words, you don’t want to buy a single-edged bar which is used when carpeting one room and another room in vinyl.

Whether you decide to use our fitting arrangement service or get right to it and do it yourself, you will find everything you need to know in this fitting guide. However, if you have a solid floor like concrete or asphalt, we always recommend a bead of Gripfill as well as nails (the nails are designed to go into concrete). If you’ve chosen to go down the DIY route, make sure you read this article in full. It will help ensure your project is a success. It will also help you minimise mistakes and keep frustrations to a minimum. Use this off-cut from the last sheet in the first row to start the second row and carry on in the same way. This reduces waste and also helps by ensuring the joints are staggered.

If you find a pipe or wire, mark the spot in these areas and use gripper adhesive instead of nails. Magic Gripper Door Clamp® ™ This patented but simple effective British invention is very simple to set up and uses the weight of the product to clamp securely. You need a double-edged door bar with grips on both sides to connect carpets in two different rooms in the doorway. Once you’ve chosen the flooring that’ll transform your home, it’s time to get it fitted! We’d always recommend using a professional flooring fitter for the best possible finish.

Whether you fit your carpet yourself or hire a professional, you might find that your carpet sheds some fibres. This is totally normal. Regular vacuuming, daily if possible during the first few weeks, will solve this issue. A vacuum cleaner fitted with a beater bar and/or brushes is recommended for cut pile carpets and one without a beater bar or brushes is best for loop pile carpets. You should now have holes filled with dowel rod, ready to accept the fixing nails of your gripper bar. Get your hammer, and hammer those fixing nails into the dowel rods. The benefits of installing them are to ensure that where the flooring in both rooms meets (the doorway) is held securely. They are essential for safety. Without the bars, the rough edges of the two carpets would be seen and would pose a huge risk of tripping. In time, when continuously walking through the doorway, the carpet will fray and wear down. Not to mention where the carpets meet in the doorway would look unsightly.

How to fit Carpet gripper rods

In this section we show you how to lay a carpet and how to make sure you get the best overall finish.

The first step to fitting your new carpet is removing your old carpet and preparing your sub-floor. The sub-floor is just the foundation underneath the floor, usually, this is concrete or wood. If the sub-floor isn’t prepared properly, it will affect the way that your carpet lies and potentially ruin the overall finish. It sounds silly, but ensure the concrete floor you’re going to be drilling into is cleaned and clear of dirt and debris. You’re going to be making marks on the floor, and you don’t want to get your pencil marks confused with existing markings. Door bars are the metal or wooden strips that you typically find in doorways. These neatly join different flooring types across door thresholds and help secure seams as well as make your carpets look neat. Read our top tips for how to fit your door bar correctly: With the holes correctly drilled, you can put the door threshold strip, i.e. the door bar, onto the floor with the holes in line with those you drilled. First, ensure both rooms’ carpet edges are correctly aligned in the gripper. Measuring carpet for stairs may seem fiddly, but when it comes to stairs or steps, the process is similar.

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So, there you have it; you now know how to fit door bars for carpets the professional way. Once you have installed the first, the task of doing the rest of the doorways in the property will be easier. Of course, bear in mind that you will need different carpet door grippers based on the scenario, carpet to carpet, carpet to vinyl etc. Are you ready to fit your door bar over the carpet? Here’s how you do it… place your gripper rod on the floor and make a mark with a pencil underneath where the nails are lined up with the floor. After you’ve marked up the space for your carpet gripper, you’ll need to drill a hole and insert a dowel rod. You can then use the dowel rod as a rawl plug for the carpet gripper’s nails. Once you’ve neatly inserted the dowel rod, you just have to hammer the nails in, and you’re done. A perfect installation that will hold your new carpet nicely. How to remove carpet gripper? Butt the edges together and join them with tape, ensuring that the edges do not overlap and that the underlay is flat and level. Once the carpet is fitted, there may be a slight odour which may be caused by the carpet or the underlay. This is called "off-gassing" and is due to chemicals called volatile organic compounds (VOCs) used in household items such as carpet adhesive, paint, and pressed-wood furniture. They evaporate at room temperature, which is why your carpet begins to smell once it is laid in your house. When you’re happy with the position of your marks, use your drill and drill bit to drill into the concrete floor. Use a vacuum cleaner to get rid of any concrete dust. Not only is it unpleasant to breathe in, you’ll want the area clear of debris to ensure a secure installation.

Yes, if you want a good finish to your carpet then using carpet grippers will help it look smooth and professional. This is will increase the longevity of your carpet and keep it looking and feeling new for longer. Get your carpet grippers alongside your new carpet from us. You definitely need them if you want a nice finish to your new floor. Whether you reuse them or not is a different question.Before fitting your new carpet you probably have some old flooring to remove, as well as preparing the sub-floor underneath. At Carpetright we make fitting a new floor easy at every step. In addition to our approved fitting arrangement service, we can also arrange to uplift your old flooring and dispose of it for you to ensure that you experience a hassle-free fit. The normal method of fitting on wood is to simply nail into the floor boards approx. 15mm away from the skirting (some fitters like them closer).