Advanced Carpet Fitting (Domestic installers)

This four-day course is designed for those who have gained the intermediate carpet fitting skills and wish to enhance their skills and knowledge to a higher level.

Syllabus: -


- Health and Safety

- British Standard BS 5325 (textiles / carpets)

- Main points affecting advanced fitting

- Sub-floor types and how they affect the installation

- Adhesion

- Underfloor heating

- Listed buildings

- Moisture tests

- Equipment

- Test methods

- Logging results

- Evaluating results

- Sub-floor preparation full practical

- Plywood

- DPMs

- Levelling Skims

- Carpet construction and its effect on fitting

- Methods of stretching carpets to correct bows and skews

- Stairs

- Hand sewn double bull nose

- Spiral

- Joins / seaming

- Heat seam

- Electronic (Silvaseam type)

- Scrim and hot melt adhesive for shaped inserts

- Pattern alignment

- Border fitting dual / single stick

- Setting out

- Adhesives

- Underlay types and suitability

- Repairs

- Re-tufting

- Tools for advanced fitting