When you put the carpet pad down do you place it withing the tack strips or on top?

 

Davidswife:

You should have it inside the tack strips. (The tacks in the tack strips are there to dig into the backing of the carpet and hold it in it's stretched position. If you put the pad over these, then the tacks won't protrude through the pad and won't be effective at holding the carpet tight.)

You may find it difficult to cut the denser dark pad. About the only tool I know of that does it well is a special tool just for cutting underpad called a "pad knife" which you can buy at a flooring installation supply store. Unfortunately, pad knives take special razor blades, so it's probably not worth the expense if you're only doing one carpet. A lot of the time I find myself just using scizzors.

 

quote:<HR>Originally posted by Nestor Kelebay:
Davidswife:

You should have it inside the tack strips. (The tacks in the tack strips are there to dig into the backing of the carpet and hold it in it's stretched position. If you put the pad over these, then the tacks won't protrude through the pad and won't be effective at holding the carpet tight.)

You may find it difficult to cut the denser dark pad. About the only tool I know of that does it well is a special tool just for cutting underpad called a "pad knife" which you can buy at a flooring installation supply store. Unfortunately, pad knives take special razor blades, so it's probably not worth the expense if you're only doing one carpet. A lot of the time I find myself just using scizzors.<HR>

 

Thanks, I figured that's what was right but I wanted to be sure. Sorry for the dumb question.

quote:<HR>Originally posted by Nestor Kelebay:
Davidswife:

You should have it inside the tack strips. (The tacks in the tack strips are there to dig into the backing of the carpet and hold it in it's stretched position. If you put the pad over these, then the tacks won't protrude through the pad and won't be effective at holding the carpet tight.)

You may find it difficult to cut the denser dark pad. About the only tool I know of that does it well is a special tool just for cutting underpad called a "pad knife" which you can buy at a flooring installation supply store. Unfortunately, pad knives take special razor blades, so it's probably not worth the expense if you're only doing one carpet. A lot of the time I find myself just using scizzors.<HR>

 

Davidswife:

There is no such thing as a dumb question.

There are only dumb answers.