40 years as a builder, laid a fair bit of carpets on floors but never stairs. Thanks for your tutorial it made my son's and my morning a hell of a lot simpler
Im ordering my new Carpet tomorrow for my hallway and stairs,After all the painting and decorating been finished,Ive laid a stairs carpet before,Bit of a tough Job,Get them to fit it all down,Seems as free fitting included,Saves me a Job,Then for the rest of the year,Im be carry on working,Earning my wages and going easy on the pennies now days
I am an old lady but still like to do DIY job around the house, I have watched your videos many times and yet I have not got around to do it myself. But will have a go, thank you for your clear explanation. you lot are so funny and yet so professional. Love it 🤪🤪🤪
@@homeimprovements Hi again, may I ask if the upstairs landing carpet and underlay cover the top first step of the stairs where the riser and tread meet where the grippers are. (not sure how to explain, hope you understand what I am trying to ask), if possible give me the link showing carpeting the landing with the top step of the stairs please.
Good video. I recommend a rubber hammer for hitting the carpet into the gripper gap, saves a lot of muscle ache. Also may have been useful to talk about pile direction.
I'm desperate to change the carpet in my hallway when I redecorate due to colour change and you've given me the confidence to give it a go. Thanks lads
Sorry question already, how do you do the top step, do you over hang a bit from landing?? Probably sounds like a silly question but makes sense in my head 😂
Nice to see you doing the job without smashing it in with hammer . They say start bottom and go upwards , although in 50 years I have never done this or any other fitter ever. Great job guys 👍
You got a subscriber out of me lads, appreciate it. Right laugh watching you guys have a giggle whilst getting a channel going😂👌🏽 Keep it up and thanks for the tips
I have taken every smoke detector down in my house because of the beep in this video. I was going to call the doctor. Thought I'd developed a new tinnitus. Every time I come to watch the video, it beeped. I have sat with every detector in the house on my shoulder, couldn't weigh up how they beeped without batteries. It's taken half an hour to suss this 😂 Grand video by the way 👍
Hi Guys! Great Video!!! I've got a question though. Don't we need gripper at each side of stairs? In some videos I saw people are putting grippers vertically on raisers in addition to horizontal ones. Thanks for advice!
Never heard pile direction mentioned, didn't crimp the sides over, helps to stop it scratching fresh paint on the risers and helps the risers sit better without creasing. When you put it over the nose you didn't crease it first before chiselling it in.
We used to live in the South East, and any stair carpet we had fitted, was always folded round, and fixed under each step. We moved to the Midlands, and fell out with the carpet fitters, because they hadn't fitted the carpet the way we were used to. Having had them back, to do it our way, they agreed that it looked better. Any thoughts?
This is the second of your carpet videos that I've watched and you guys are jokes. love it. 🙌In the previous (box room) carpet laying video, you mentioned pile of the carpet on the stairs? Which way would you recommend and how can you tell the direction of the pile if it's kinda short and doesn't move around too much. Does that mean it doesn't matter about direction too much? Thanks again! x
@@homeimprovements forgot to mention that I found it straight after 🤭🤦 thanks for sharing all the info. makes me feel like even *I* can do it (not sure that's a good thing! 😊)
I'd go with a little step nosing, if you have laminate on the landing and carpet on the steps. Z-bar would be fine if it carpet on the landing laminate on the steps.
Nope grippers vary in quality but there pretty much set and will work across all carpets as they are only designed to hold the backing not the pile 😊👍🏼
I had a guy do my stairs, and he cut rectangles for the underlay so it was a small piece on each step, rather than going over the step. Also, I can feel the grippers through the carpet. Well annoyed. 4 year old daughter has cut her feet on the pins many times. Grr.
Why would you work down? And not up? Shoot the bottom of the stair, then stretch the step then set and shoot. Rinse and repeat! Faster and more efficient being how you can’t stretch down.
Those stair are going to be so loose. Need to start bottom set on pins kick tread to rise set and continue up. Never wrinkle or loosen up . Your welcome
Please stop posting diy videos. on carpet fitting you don't understand how many wasted trip I've done trying to fix jobs from people saying my husband watched a video and tried to fit the carpet. Turn up to carpet being cut or chewed miles to short I know I'm good but I'm not a magician
Language please sir A professional should know grippers are set depending on the carpet being installed there is no one set spacing , we set these to accommodate the carpet being installed Thanks for your comment 👍🏼
Cool these are not “basement” stairs hector it’s a staircase leading to the first floor , exerting or making sure the job was completed to the highest standard 🤷🏼♂️ anyway that’s your opinion and you have every right to it 👍🏼
