Tack Strips


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Old 07-26-04, 09:51 AM
bdansen
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Tack Strips

We have to take up a section of our living room carpet thanks to our cats thinking it was one big litter box. All the cleaning in the world that I've done hasn't removed the smell. Anyway, we're replacing that section of flooring with tile. We did this in our bathrooms recently and didn't have much luck with tacking down the carpet at the seam between the tile and the carpet. We used the wooden tack strips from Home Depot. Is there any trick to making the seam look smooth? Ours looked nothing like the section that the professional installers did. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.

Bobbi
 
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Old 07-29-04, 06:36 PM
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Yes.
Hire the professional installer.

Did you leave a gap between the tackstrip and ceramic tile? Or is this vinyl tile that needs a transition piece(z-bar or crimp metal)?

Did you stretch the carpet good onto the tackstrip, so you don't create a bubble, when you tuck it.

Did you trim it too long and now your trying to dtuff too much carpet edge into the gap?
 
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Old 08-19-04, 02:54 PM
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I'd suggest using a pounddown metal. Just ask for it at a carpet store and tell them what you want to do, surely they can explain it to you, it's not hard.
 

Last edited by ROUS; 08-19-04 at 02:55 PM. Reason: misspell
 

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