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.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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