Carpetting help please

Rib is generally rough, more for office than home.

Carpet tape to join it, gripperrod, hammer, tough knife, tough scissors, screwdriver.

And if youve got boards with big gaps, some kind of sheet underlay. If youre choosing rib I doubt youll be caring about soft squishy underlay much - really I'd pick something else.

Regards, NT

Carpet laying is a skill like plastering, it looks so simple that surely there can't be much to it (oh contraire). I would suggest going to a contract carpets place & getting the basic stuff fitted by them. There won't be a showroom as such, but they usually have enough of the stuff to show you. Great value.

Well, I'll offer some contrary suggestions - why not :) I found it was quite doable really, as long as you pay attention to getting the carpet flat and in the right place before jamming it behind the gripper rod, all is well. I would leave any excess carpet all round until the latest time possible to cut it off, because stuffing carpet into the grippperrod can cause it to move slightly.

I think its perfectly diyable with griprod myself, as long as you pay attention.

Best place to get the gripper is probably screwfix.

Regards, NT