Trim And Stretch Carpet

Stretch carpet if your wall to wall begins to bunch wrinkle or otherwise come up short try this strategy to restore its looks comfort and safety.

Trim and stretch carpet.

This is an un backed automotive carpet meaning that it has no rubber latex backing like most cut pile and loop pile carpets do. Then lay down the carpet over the padding. Also called super flex carpet ozite or stretch carpet. Trim the padding with a carpet cutter if you haven t already done so with a utility knife.

Superflex or ozite carpet stretches over any humps or molds in the floor of your vehicle. Using a carpet cutter and a utility knife photos 10 and 11 cut off the excess after the carpet is completely stretched. A messy or lumpy carpet edge is easily noticeable and may get worse with time. Lay the carpet down.

Fortunately you can trim and edge carpet yourself in just a few minutes using a few simple carpet installation tools.