Carpet Installers
Summary Lay and install carpet from rolls or blocks on floors. Install padding and trim flooring materials. Duties
- Join edges of carpet and seam edges where necessary, by sewing or by using tape with glue and heated carpet iron.
- Cut and trim carpet to fit along wall edges, openings, and projections, finishing the edges with a wall trimmer.
- Inspect the surface to be covered to determine its condition, and correct any imperfections that might show through carpet or cause carpet to wear unevenly.
- Roll out, measure, mark, and cut carpeting to size with a carpet knife, following floor sketches and allowing extra carpet for final fitting.
- Plan the layout of the carpet, allowing for expected traffic patterns and placing seams for best appearance and longest wear.
- Stretch carpet to align with walls and ensure a smooth surface, and press carpet in place over tack strips or use staples, tape, tacks or glue to hold carpet in place.
- Take measurements and study floor sketches to calculate the area to be carpeted and the amount of material needed.
- Cut carpet padding to size and install padding, following prescribed method.
- Install carpet on some floors using adhesive, following prescribed method.
- Nail tack strips around area to be carpeted or use old strips to attach edges of new carpet.
- Fasten metal treads across door openings or where carpet meets flooring to hold carpet in place.
- Measure, cut and install tackless strips along the baseboard or wall.
- Draw building diagrams and record dimensions.
- Move furniture from area to be carpeted and remove old carpet and padding.
- Cut and bind material.
- Clean up before and after installation, including vacuuming carpet and discarding remnant pieces.
- Clean work sites.
- Install carpet or flooring.
- Cut carpet, vinyl or other flexible materials.
- Smooth surfaces with abrasive materials or tools.
- Inspect work sites to determine condition or necessary repairs.
- Prepare surfaces for finishing.
- Measure materials or objects for installation or assembly.
- Cut carpet, vinyl or other flexible materials.
- Mark reference points on construction materials.
- Plan layout of construction, installation, or repairs.
- Install carpet or flooring.
- Review blueprints or specifications to determine work requirements.
- Measure work site dimensions.
- Estimate materials requirements for projects.
- Install carpet or flooring.
- Cut carpet, vinyl or other flexible materials.
- Install carpet or flooring.
- Install carpet or flooring.
- Install carpet or flooring.
- Measure materials or objects for installation or assembly.
- Install carpet or flooring.
- Create construction or installation diagrams.
- Remove worn, damaged or outdated materials from work areas.
- Cut carpet, vinyl or other flexible materials.
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Microsoft Excel
- Air underlayment staplers
- Aya Associates Comp-U-Floor
- Butane glue guns
- Carpet awls
- Carpet base cutters
- Carpet clamps
- Carpet cutters
- Carpet Dealer Management System CDMS
- Carpet grippers/pullers
- Carpet seam steamers
- Carpet shears
- Carpet trolleys
- Carpet tucking tools
- Caulking guns
- Concrete nail drivers
- Cool tip glue guns
- Cove base guns
- Cushion back cutters
- Cushion lock cutters
- Desktop computers
- Door pin tools
- Drill bit sets
- Edge-binding staplers
- Electric carpet tackers
- Electric glue guns
- eTakeoff
- FIRST Flooring
- Floor scraper blades
- FloorCOST Estimator for Excel
- Flooring Technologies QFloors
- FloorRight
- Focus Floor Covering Software
- Furniture skids
- Hammer tackers
- Hammers
- Hand trucks
- Handheld calculators
- Heavy duty electric staplers
- Hexagon bit adaptors
- Hooked blades
- Jamb saws
- Knee kickers
- Laser printers
- Loop pile cutters
- Measure Square FloorEstimate Pro
- Molding lifter bars
- Multipurpose trimmers
- Nail driving guns
- Napping shears
- Notebook computers
- Personal computers
- Power carpet stretchers
- Power drills
- RFMS Schedule Pro
- Round corner carpet blades
- Row separators
- Rubber mallets
- Seam cutters
- Seam squeezers
- Sewing needles
- Spiral drill bits
- Square corner carpet blades
- Stair claws
- Stairway stretchers
- Standup cutters
- Steaming irons
- Straightedges
- Strip cutter blades
- Strip cutters
- Switchblade trowels
- Swivel-lock stretchers
- Tackless cutter blades
- Tape measures
- Textile Management Systems RollMaster
- Toe kick saws
- Trimmer carpet blades
- Tucking trimmers
- Turning tools
- Ultraviolet UV seam inspection lights
- Undercut saws
- Utility knives
- Wall trimmers
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