Soup popped his head over the parapet,saw what was going on and said

Hi how do people normally fit carpet?

Tried fitting carpet a couple of times when the carpet was really cheap
and personally I think it doesn't look nice, with the cost of carpet and
having to look at it for years seems miserly not to use professional
carpet fitters. If you feel you must lay the carpet yourself ;edge the
room in gripperrod (a useful tip is to lay the GR the width of a edge of
a piece of GR from the wall) then insert (should require a thump
(use a brick bolster hit with a hammer))carpet into the gap , do two
adjacent sides stretch (using one of the knee kick stretcher things, don't
know its proper name)the carpet to one of the remaining sides trim
and "bash" the carpet into the gap. Then do the remaining side.
(one instance where I don't D.I.Y.)

Alternatively (and a better option IMHO) is to pay £30 ~£40 to the
carpet supplier and get them to fit the carpet ( remember the people they
"hire" do carpet laying for a living and they will be insured).

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