Laying carpets is largely a confidence thing – as the earlier post pointed out, one wrong cut is all it takes to ruin the entire piece. The catch 22 is that you can only get that confidence by making mistakes.*
With that thought in mind, why not scan the small ads in your local newspaper for a comparable sized cheap cut of carpet that you can practice on first to familiarise yourself with the tools you’ll be using – that way you’ll only be slightly poorer but a lot wiser.
Hope this helps...
Terry Cousins
* Whenever doubt creeps in - and it will - remember this: The man who says he has never made a mistake has never made nothing!
Now you can work with the confidence of an expert – without having to put in the years of practice!
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