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Roger Mills
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Carpet fitting
In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
wrote:
How easy is it to take up and relay a stair & landing carpet? I want
to put down a carpet now and take it up in a year's time when I want
to paint my bannisters. Alternatively I could leave the carpets off
until we have done all the painting but this means living without a
carpet for quite a while until we get around to doing the painting.
As long as the landing carpet is held down by gripper rods, it's pretty easy
to pull it up (starting at a corner) and put it back. It will help if you
buy a knee kicker (I think Screwfix do one for about 30 quid now) which
makes it easy to stretch the carpet back onto the grippers.
The stair carpet should be fitted with one gripper rod near the bottom of
each riser and another near the back of each tread - with the spikes
pointing towards each other. It can be pulled out - a step at a time - with
a sharp tug. When you put it back, use a blunt bolster chisel to force it
back into the corners. [Don't use grippers made out of flimsy metal angle,
with the 'spikes' pressed out of it. At best, that's only good for one
application. Use proper wood and nails gripper rod - as used on the floors].
I've had my stair and landing carpets up several times over the years, and
they always go back ok by using these methods.
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Cheers,
Roger
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