Method for installing flexible carpet base

A method for installing a wall-to-wall carpet such that the edge of the carpet is engaged by and covered by a pre-installed wall base, comprising,

• securing to the wall at the floor a carpet wall base, said carpet wall base having a vertical, generally planar section having a flat back surface for lying flatly against and adhering to a wall, a flange member protruding generally horizontally outwardly from the flat planar member, outwardly from the wall, and having a generally sloping upper surface and a generally flat bottom surface projecting outwardly in a generally horizontal direction, the flange tapering in cross section from a first relatively heavy thickness at the flat planar member down to a point of zero thickness at an outer extremity and having a cross sectional shape making the flange substantially rigid, the flat planar member having a flat tail extension below the bottom of the flange, having a bottom edge adapted to engage against a floor, so that the carpet-engaging flange is space above the floor on installation of the wall base, and the wall base with the flat planar member and flange being integrally extruded of a generally rubbery plastic material as a one-piece integral cross-section,
• after a carpet has been installed and fixed to the floor, trimming the carpet such that the edge of the carpet extends up onto the upper surface of the flange of the wall base, and
• tucking the carpet edge under the flange using a blade type tool engaged between the top surface of the carpet and the outer extremity of the protruding flange, and sliding the tool longitudinally with the tool engaged against the flange, to thereby progressively draw the carpet edge down under the flange along the length of a wall, whereby the carpet is engaged by the base flange and its edge is covered.