Lay the carpet down.
Trim and stretch carpet.
Embed the carpet edge firmly in the tack strip and under baseboards by forcing the front edge of the carpet cutter into the carpet and dragging it along the wall.
Then lay down the carpet over the padding.
Set the power stretcher down over the part of the carpet you are working with and want to be stretched.
Using a carpet cutter and a utility knife photos 10 and 11 cut off the excess after the carpet is completely stretched.
Edging carpet along a wall is perhaps the most important part of carpet installation.
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.
Fortunately you can trim and edge carpet yourself in just a few minutes using a few simple carpet installation tools.