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Homeowners usually want professionals to install carpet, but some homeowners want to avoid the high cost of hiring someone. Many do-it-yourselfers find out carpet installation isn’t as difficult as the professionals make it seem. If you have good leg and arm strength and can read a tape measure, you can install carpet.Unroll the padding across the room you are carpeting, with the waffle side up. Cut this with a carpet cutting tool; overlap the fastening strips 2 inches along the entire wall. Use the staple gun and heavy duty staples to staple the padding into place, attaching a staple about every 6 inches. When all padding is in place, cut the padding where it meets the inner edge of the fastening strips only.Put on the knee pads. Attach carpet to the hardwood floors Evansville fastening strips using the knee kicker. Start in a corner and put the head of the kicker on the carpet about an inch from the wall and aim it down at an angle to the wall. Kneel on the floor in the corner and hold the handle of the kicker with your right hand while using the left hand to hold yourself upright on the floor. Put as much of your weight as possible on the right arm and shove the left knee into the kicker to push the carpet and stretch it into place. Hook the carpet into the teeth of the fastening strips. Do this around the entire room