I'm moving into a house and it is solid concrete, the walls and the floors. we want to install carpet in two of the bedrooms and we were originally going to get stick on carpet tiles, but they were unavailable. We think that traditional carpet installation would be too big of a project for us to handle ourselves and hiring someone would cost too much. So my question is, how exactly do we go about this? Can we just buy regular carpet and install it with the adhesive? Does it need padding? or is there a specific type we need to buy?Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
I've never actually put carpet on but I've watched my dad do it, you need a layer of underlay underneath the carpet, you can use adhesive but most people nail the carpet down or there are these thing (I've forgotten what they're called) which are wooden strips with nails in them which you put under carpets
carpet stores sell rubber back carpet that you can install over concrete no glue needed .you can install jute back or action back with double face tape or glue .. or just lay it down and let gravity do it's job..you don't have to have padding, but it does make it more comfortable
Buy a carpet and pad that can both be glued down, called a double stick.
