How to Fix a Lump in the Carpet
- 1). Move furniture out of the room that has the lumpy carpet.
- 2). Loosen the carpet at a corner in the room. Pull up on the carpet carefully using pliers. Once started, pull up the carpet from around all the edges in the room.
- 3). Roll back the carpet along one wall. Remove the tack strip by pushing a pry bar underneath it. Pull up to remove the tack strip.
- 4). Measure and cut a new tack strip for one wall. Use a tape measure and saw to complete this process. Hammer the tack into place using the small nails attached to the tack strip.
- 5). Follow this same process to install new tack strips around the entire room.
- 6). Flatten the carpet in the room, making sure that the carpet covers the new tack strips.
- 7). Attach the carpet along one wall using a knee kicker. Lay a power stretcher onto the floor and attach one end along the wall where you used the knee kicker. Place the other end at the opposite wall.
- 8). Stretch the carpet in a fan pattern, work from the inside out. Use a knee kicker to attach the carpet to the tack strips along the wall.
- 9). Complete these steps on the remaining two walls in the room.
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Cut excess carpet from around the walls using a utility knife. Push the carpet beneath the baseboard with a carpet tool. - 11
Replace the furniture.
