Carpet layers install carpet and other flooring materials in homes and businesses. They require physical fitness, reliability, and basic math skills. Assistants help with jobs, and experienced carpet layers can become supervisors or project managers. They may also repair floors and install other flooring materials. Joining carpet sections requires melting tape or staples.
A carpet layer is a trained professional installer of carpeting and possibly other flooring materials. Carpet layers can stand alone or work for a company. They work in homes and/or in businesses. A carpet layer must be physically fit, reliable and have good basic math skills.
Carpet underlay jobs require accurate measurements. A layer of carpet must keep appointments with home and business owners. Most hours work during the day, although some office carpet installation jobs must be done at night so as not to disrupt the running of a business.
Assistants usually help an experienced carpet layer with each job. The assistant can cut the backing and hammer it into the floor with carpet mallets. For stripless carpet styles, the assistant layer first adds special tape to the floor before stretching and positioning the mat in place.
Most carpet layers start out as assistants and learn their craft on the job rather than through formal career training. Once their skills are strengthened and proven reliable, experienced carpet layers can move into positions such as supervisor or project manager. Carpet layers that go self-employed at this point are likely to hire assistants. An experienced carpet layer can also be requested by a large company hired to lead a team of assistants.
A few layers of carpet can repaint and repair floors in addition to laying carpet. They often use sanders to sand wood floors for touchup. A carpet layer can install many other types of flooring materials besides carpet, such as vinyl, ceramic, bamboo, and wood. Carpet layers can also repair rugs, only replacing worn or stained areas if matching carpets can be used. A carpet installer who lays carpet in businesses may also serve other commercial customers such as hotels and hospitals.
Carpet layers and their assistants often have to work with large rolls of carpet, but they also join large pieces of carpet in a room. To do this effectively, they use a tape that melts the rug sections when heated. In some areas, such as on stairs, staples from a staple gun can be used to join carpeting instead of duct tape.
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