How To Tack Down Carpet At Threshold

Use the knee kicker to fit the carpet over the hooks in the carpet.

How to tack down carpet at threshold.

Silver fluted 36 in. A threshold the strip of metal or wood placed across the bottom of the doorway makes for a smooth transition from one carpeted room to another or from carpeting to. Designed to eliminate your carpet edges from fraying vinyl floor edging from curling. One transition method of tucking carpet next to tile is with a tack strip.

How to carpet thresholds. Carpet trim connect a gap in your flooring or cover up connect a gap in your flooring or cover up a seam with the exclusive silver fluted carpet trim from trafficmaster. Repeat the process along the entire doorway until no portion of the carpet edge remains visible. Use the knee kick tool to ease the carpet edge over the tack strip pushing the carpet down onto the tack strip with your hands as you move from one side to the other.

Press forward on the knee portion of the tool to stretch the carpet and use a putty knife to tuck the edge of the carpet into the tack strip down in the floor. Install carpet transition strips at thresholds where carpet meets another type of flooring. Lock the carpet down drive down the lip tapping gradually back and forth along its entire length. Pull the carpet over the top using a knee kicker.

All you have to do it remodel the existing carpet so that it accommodates the transition strip. Carpet staples inserted through the carpet and into the edge of the tack strip can be used for added installation security. Nudge the carpet toward the threshold with a rented knee kicker and force the carpet into the threshold s teeth with a stiff putty knife. As a rule of thumb make sure to install the tack strip for the carpet about 1 4 to 3 8 inches from the edge of the tile.

Measure the threshold and cut the carpet gripper to length with a hack saw. Cut the edge of the carpet so that it reaches the edge of the tile perfectly. Screw the carpet trim to the floor. Carpet installation repairs.

Make sure the staples are inserted between the rows of carpet nap so that they are hidden from view.