DIY Home Décor
How to install carpet tiles
Carpet tiles can be a great option for play rooms, kid’s rooms and utility rooms. They are easy to install but also easily removed if a carpet tile needs cleaning or replacing if it stained. Plus it’s much easier than removing and replacing/cleaning a whole carpet.
You need to install the tiles onto a clean, flat surface, a lot of carpet tiles can also be installed on top of subfloors or hard flooring however you can’t put them on top of other carpeting.
To start off with you have to find the centre of the floor, this is easy if the room is square or oblong shaped with four parallel walls. Take a chalk line from one corner of the room to the corner diagonal from it then snap the line and repeat with the other two corners. This will leave an X in the middle of the floor. You then need to find the centre of all four walls and follow suit again with the chalk line. You will then have a precisely marked centre.
You now need to apply carpet tape around the perimeter of the room and over the chalk lines, do not remove the backing of the tape until you’re ready to place tiles on top of it. Lay the tiles next to the lines, not on top of them from centre wall to centre wall, making sure the tiles fit snugly together. You should also make sure the nap or pattern of the tiles is all going in the same direction.
The tiles need to be cut to fit the edges, to do this place a tile face down under the last whole tile in the row and lay it snugly against the wall then mark the back of the tile where the previous tile ends on it. To cut the carpet tile, place it on a piece of cardboard and cut it with a carpet knife using a carpenter’s square to ensure a straight edge.
Once you like where the tiles are placed you can remove the tape backing and stick them in place. To finish off, fill in the rest of the room work from the centre of the room to the corners of the room.
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