Carpet Installers

Job Description

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