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Overview
Carpet fitters lay rolls of carpet as floor covering by preparing the surface, measuring and cutting the carpet to size, positioning it correctly and finishing the installation.
In job descriptions, look for carpet rolls, subfloor preparation, measuring rooms, cutting tools, adhesives or fixing methods, commercial or domestic sites, floor plans, site cleanup and customer handover.
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Open in Job ExplorerWhat the work can involve
Carpet fitters work on floors in homes, offices, shops or other interiors. The practical work is measuring, preparing the base, cutting carpet rolls, fitting the material accurately and leaving the site ready for use.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes reading room plans, measuring carefully, using cutting tools, preparing subfloors, handling heavy rolls, choosing fixing methods, trimming edges and checking seams and thresholds.
Salary context
Salary context depends on site type, installation speed, finish quality, responsibility for measuring, customer contact, travel between jobs, commercial scale and whether the fitter leads a small crew.
Career paths
Paths can move toward senior floor layer, commercial flooring installer, site lead, estimating, flooring sales support or broader floor-covering work with vinyl, laminate or tiles.
Good to know
Check whether adverts name domestic or commercial sites, carpet rolls, subfloor preparation, adhesives, cutting tools, measuring, customer handover, driving between jobs and cleanup responsibility.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context. It is not official labour-market statistics or role-specific salary data.
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Occupation group
Floor layers and tile setters (7122)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/e43d0f86-7abf-4c6e-b2b3-10970ddf6518 |
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| ESCO code | 7122.1 |
| ISCO group | 7122 |
| Concept type | Occupation |