# Carpet

> Carpet for rooms and stairs. Ask with your Sheet attached: homeowners who’ve done it and verified pros answer, and anyone can read it.

## Before you ask

The room or stair sizes, the pad you want, and seams you’re worried about.

- **Attach your Sheet** so people see your sizes and the math.
- **Your town is enough.** Never your address; check photos for house numbers and plates.
- **Is it safe?** A safety question here goes to pros verified in flooring, unless you pick another trade. Only they can call it safe or unsafe.

## Carpet a room

14′ × 12′ room: 19.4 sq yd of carpet, 19.6 sq yd of pad and 13 pieces of tack strip, with the seams laid out.

What people get wrong:

- **Pad over the tack strip.** The pins can’t grab the carpet backing and the edge pulls loose.
- **Stretching with only a knee kicker.** Ripples within months.
- **Seams in the wrong place.** Seams across a doorway or across the traffic path fray and show.

[The worked example, every line's math and the code notes](https://studsheet.com/sheets/carpet) · [Your own sizes in the app](https://app.studsheet.com/p/carpet)

## Carpet stairs

13 steps, 3′ wide: 12 sq yd of carpet, 4.2 sq yd of pad and 20 pieces of tack strip, cut step by step.

What people get wrong:

- **Pile running up the stairs.** It wears faster and looks a different color.
- **Cutting all the pieces from one measurement.** Steps vary by a little: measure each one before you cut its piece.
- **Pad that stops short of the nose.** The nose wears through first.

[The worked example, every line's math and the code notes](https://studsheet.com/sheets/carpetstairs) · [Your own sizes in the app](https://app.studsheet.com/p/carpetstairs)

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## How the community works

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