Great artisans are usually capable of:

• Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials.
• Performing precise and skillful manipulation of small objects.
• Being active and proactive in regards to physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.

Any supervisor should excel at:

• Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment.
• Detecting or assessing problems whether real or potential.
• Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.

• Cleaning up before and after installation, including vacuuming carpet and discarding remnant pieces.
• Joining edges of carpets and sewing edges where necessary, by sewing or by using adhesive tapes and heated irons.
• Cutting and trimming carpets for fitting along wall edges, openings, and projections, finishing the edges with a wall trimmer.
• Inspecting the surfaces to be covered for determining its conditions, and correcting any imperfections showing through carpeting or causing carpets to wear unevenly.
• Rolling out, measuring, marking, and cutting carpeting to size with a carpet knife, following floor sketches and allowing extra carpet for final fitting.
• Planning the layout of the carpet, allowing for expected traffic patterns and placing seams for best appearance and longest wear.
• Stretching carpet for aligning with walls and ensuring a smooth surface, and press carpet in place over tack strips or using staples, tapes, tacks or glues for holding the carpet in place.
• Taking measurements and studying the flooring sketches, for calculating the area to be carpeted and the amount of material needed.