How to Install Commercial Carpet Tiles

While carpet tiles may be a DIY-friendly flooring material, you may want to consider hiring a professional flooring contractor for commercial carpet tiles installations. Commercial flooring is not like a residential flooring when you can always hide mistakes in the installation. Aside from that, commercial flooring gains more traffic than residential flooring. Thus, it is important that the flooring is installed in a perfect manner in order for it to last for a long time. Sure, you can do the installing on your own, but low-quality workmanship will cost you more in the long run. To give you an idea, we are presenting the basic steps on how to install commercial carpet tiles.

1) Surface Preparation

It is important that you ensure that the flooring area is clean and free of dust and grease. If installing over a solid floor, putting a damp proof membrane is recommended. To prevent movement of carpet tiles, adhesives can be used. This ensures that the carpet tiles are in place and secured.

2) Laying the carpet tiles

Laying the carpet tiles on the floor starts at the center of the area to be covered. Work your way outwards towards the walls. Make sure that the carpet tiles are laid tightly close to each other. As much as possible, keep an eye for gaps because they definitely don't look good on your floor. You don't want to discover this after you laid out all the carpet tiles. Also, make sure you do not trap any carpet pile between each joint.

3) Cutting the carpet tiles

Of course, not all space are the same and whether you like it or not, there are times when you need to cut the carpet tiles especially when very little space is left uncovered near the wall edges. You may also encounter some obstacles such as fitted cupboards. You may draw a line on the carpet tiles to mark the cutting line.

Floorwise, a premiere commercial flooring contractor in Western Australia, employs state of the art technology in the efficient installation of commercial carpet tiles. The high quality workmanship ensures that no matter how much traffic the space has, the carpet tiles will surely last for a considerable long time.