Tack Strip Between Carpet And Wood Floor

Locate the brad nails that hold the first piece of tack strip to the floor.

Tack strip between carpet and wood floor.

Connect a gap in your flooring or cover connect a gap in your flooring or cover up a seam with the exclusive silver fluted carpet trim from trafficmaster. This video will show a carpet transition turn n tack method the correct way to get great results while roll and staple carpet. Make quick work of creating a smooth transition between two different flooring surfaces with help from trafficmaster. Staple the pad against the edge of the tack strip.

A hammer stapler can speed up this process. Designed to eliminate your carpet edges from fraying vinyl floor edging from curling. A lot of times i can just use the pliers to get the staples up but some staples are so close to the floor that i need to use the wonder tool to get them started. Once you have all of the tack strips up it is time to remove any staples on the floor from the carpet pad.

Cut a strip of carpet reducer to the length you measured using a chop saw. I love using the wonder tool and these pliers for this job. Step 3 place the curved edge of a small pry bar against the tack strip lining the pry bar up with the first nail. This will allow an approximate 1 4 inch gap between.

Typically there will be three nails spaced evenly along each three foot section of tack strip. If padding over a concrete floor use adhesive. Work toward the tack strips smoothing the pad and stapling. When installing the strip fold back the carpet and pad so it s out of the way and place the strip approximately 1 2 away from the finished wood floor.

Run a carpet knife against the strip to trim the pad. Concrete tack strip uses hardened steel nails that can penetrate concrete. Fasten the pad to the wood subfloor with staples every 10 12 in each direction. It will also show what not to.