Intermediate Carpet Skills
This five-day course is for those who have gained the essential carpet fitting skills and wish to enhance their skills and knowledge to a higher level. We reserve the right to modify the course for those who do not have essential skills.
Course notes included.
Syllabus
Health and Safety
General health and safety rules
Overview of Risk Assessment including sample document
COSHH an understanding
Customer relations
Customer expectations
Problem solving / procedure
British Standard BS 5325 (textiles / carpets)
Main points of the Standard
British Standard BS 5808 (Underlays)
Types and uses of Underlays
Manufacturers standards
Sub-floor types and how they effect the installation
Moisture tests (practical)
Equipment
Test methods
Logging results
Evaluating results
Sub-floor preparation
Plywood
DPM’s (demonstration)
Levelling Skims
An overview of methods of installing
Interlays
Tackless strips
Door profiles
Underlays
Types of carpet construction and methods of fitting
Fitting carpets including power-stretching and hand stretching methods
Irregular
shape areas
Toilet / bathrooms
Kite winders
Bull nose - cap and band – sewn
Open plan
Joins / seaming
Heat seam
Electronic (Silvaseam type)
Pattern alignment techniques
Tools of the trade