Gluing Carpet To Stairs

First lay out the carpet and any padding.

Gluing carpet to stairs. Once you have selected your carpet measured and prepped your stairs you are ready to begin installing your new carpet before getting started be sure to learn the terms for the different parts of your staircase. Glue carpet directly to steel for installation in areas such as the floor of a car or on stairs. Glue can keep the stair carpet firmly in place. Gluing carpet onto stairs will prevent wrinkles and loose carpeting from developing bumps across the stair rise of tread.

There are two methods of installation. If using a pad glue that down first and then glue the carpet to the pad. 1 unroll carpet and rough cut i. Glue should never be used alone to install carpeting on a staircase though it should be used with other attachment tools to hold the carpet more securely into place.

Roll back the pieces and spread the glue on with a. Installing carpet on stairs can be tricky and time consuming but it can be accomplished even by novices with some understanding and patience. Applying the glue is an easy process that will hold the. Be sure you have about one inch of spare carpet at either side of the stairs.

Begin unrolling your carpet 12 to 15 at a time. Starting at the center of the carpet press it down against the adhesive smoothing it flat as you work toward the left and right edges. Both areas use the same installation techniques. Once it is all in place seams flush and no overlapping or short lengths of carpet exposed you can begin to glue the carpet down.