Talk to your school counselor about programs and classes like woodworking that are offered at your school so you can start learning skills that will get you started in this field.

Find a class to jump-start your construction skills.

Try your hand at reading and drawing floor plans using a free floor plan sketcher tool.

Practice drawing floor plans.

Search online for how-to videos to see how hard this work is to master--and whether it's something you think you'd like. Does seeing this kind of work in action make you more interested in trying it?

Watch tutorials on how to do this kind of work.

Carpet Installers

Lay and install carpet from rolls or blocks on floors. Install padding and trim flooring materials.

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

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Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

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Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed

Carpet, Floor, and Tile Installers and Finishers

Construction and Extraction Occupations

Construction Trades Workers

Inspect the surface to be covered to determine its condition, and correct any imperfections that might show through carpet or cause carpet to wear unevenly.

Roll out, measure, mark, and cut carpeting to size with a carpet knife, following floor sketches and allowing extra carpet for final fitting.

Join edges of carpet and seam edges where necessary, by sewing or by using tape with glue and heated carpet iron.

Cut and trim carpet to fit along wall edges, openings, and projections, finishing the edges with a wall trimmer.

Plan the layout of the carpet, allowing for expected traffic patterns and placing seams for best appearance and longest wear.

Stretch carpet to align with walls and ensure a smooth surface, and press carpet in place over tack strips or use staples, tape, tacks or glue to hold carpet in place.

Take measurements and study floor sketches to calculate the area to be carpeted and the amount of material needed.

Install carpet on some floors using adhesive, following prescribed method.

Clean up before and after installation, including vacuuming carpet and discarding remnant pieces.

Measure, cut and install tackless strips along the baseboard or wall.

Nail tack strips around area to be carpeted or use old strips to attach edges of new carpet.

Cut carpet padding to size and install padding, following prescribed method.

Fasten metal treads across door openings or where carpet meets flooring to hold carpet in place.

Draw building diagrams and record dimensions.

Move furniture from area to be carpeted and remove old carpet and padding.

Air underlayment staplers

Butane glue guns

Carpet awls

Carpet base cutters

Carpet clamps

Carpet cutters

Carpet grippers/pullers

Carpet seam steamers

Carpet shears

Carpet trolleys

Carpet tucking tools

Caulking guns

Concrete nail drivers

Cool tip glue guns

Cove base guns

Cushion back cutters

Cushion lock cutters

Desktop computers

Door pin tools

Drill bit sets

Edge-binding staplers

Electric carpet tackers

Electric glue guns

Floor scraper blades

Furniture skids

Hammer tackers

Hammers

Hand trucks

Handheld calculators

Heavy duty electric staplers

Hexagon bit adaptors

Hooked blades

Jamb saws

Knee kickers

Laser printers

Loop pile cutters

Molding lifter bars

Multipurpose trimmers

Nail driving guns

Napping shears

Notebook computers

Personal computers

Power carpet stretchers

Power drills

Round corner carpet blades

Row separators

Rubber mallets

Seam cutters

Seam squeezers

Sewing needles

Spiral drill bits

Square corner carpet blades

Stair claws

Stairway stretchers

Standup cutters

Steaming irons

Straightedges

Strip cutter blades

Strip cutters

Switchblade trowels

Swivel-lock stretchers

Tackless cutter blades

Tape measures

Toe kick saws

Trimmer carpet blades

Tucking trimmers

Turning tools

Ultraviolet UV seam inspection lights

Undercut saws

Utility knives

Wall trimmers

Autodesk AutoCAD

Aya Associates Comp-U-Floor

Carpet Dealer Management System CDMS

eTakeoff

FIRST Flooring

FloorCOST Estimator for Excel

Flooring Technologies QFloors

FloorRight

Focus Floor Covering Software

Measure Square FloorEstimate Pro

Microsoft Excel

RFMS Schedule Pro

Textile Management Systems RollMaster

Carpet Installers

Overview

Career

What Carpet Installers Do

Other Job Titles Carpet Installers May Have

Tasks & Responsibilities May Include

Carpet Installers

Overview

Career

What Carpet Installers Do

Other Job Titles Carpet Installers May Have

Tasks & Responsibilities May Include

Education

Level of Education Attained by Carpet Installers

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