Read through the instructions carefully and decide if DIY is for you. It's easy.
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| Installing Masonite | Applying floor-levelling cements | Installing direct-stick carpet | Installing sheet vinyl | Installing commercial sheet vinyl |
| Use Masonite sheets over timber boards to create a suitable sub-floor for sheet vinyl. |
Easy-to-read, do-it-yourself instructions for using cement compounds to level your concrete floor prior to installing other floor coverings. | Instructions for installing direct-stick carpet. | It's easy when you know how! These instructions will provide you with the detailed steps to installing sheet vinyl floorcoverings. |
Easy-to-read instructions for installing commercial sheet vinyl. |
Measuring up
Carpet
Carpet comes in 12-foot-wide rolls 3.66m). So when you are measuring any room over this width, you need to allow for a piece to be joined along the side.
Another thing to remember when estimating for any ribbed carpet is that you would probably want the direction of the ribs to run the same way throughout the house.
If in doubt, allow a little extra. Better safe than sorry.
Vinyl
Vinyl comes in rolls of two, three or four metres. The product details on our website displays the roll-width for most samples, so you can use this to figure out how many "runs" you need to fill the width of a room. For example, a 3.6 x 3.6 metre room will need two "runs" of 2-metre-wide vinyl by 3.6 metres long. So you would actually need to purchase 7.2 metres of 2-metre-wide vinyl.
This can sometimes be confusing because it means the square meterage of the room is not what you purchase to lay the floor. With our example of a 3.6 x 3.6 metre room, the room is 12.96 square metres. However, because you would need 7.2 x 2 metres of vinyl, you have to buy 14.4 square metres to fill the room.
Still confused?
Take precise measurements of your room lengths and widths. Draw up a plan, and email it, attach it to our form or post it to us. We can figure it out for you.