What kind of carpet transition to vinyl plank flooring should I use?

So I'm installing vinyl plank flooring this weekend in my entire upper floor, with the exception of the bedrooms. So I will have three doorways that will have carpet in the bedrooms that I need to transition to the vinyl plank in the hallway. Can I just use a z-bar for the carpet? Would the strip of z-bar where I fold the carpet under go over the vinyl plank? Or right up to it? I also thought about using a z-bar for the carpet first, right down on the subfloor, then installing the vinyl into an end cap up against the carpet? Just trying to figure out the cleanest way to do this. Any suggestions would be helpful. I'm installing on wood subfloor fyi.

 

Hard to answer when we don't know if there is a height difference, or which is higher. I would probably simply tuck the carpet over a tack strip and cut it off then use a t moulding (if they are close to level) or reducing molding (if one r the other is 1/4 - 3/8 lower) that matches your laminate flooring. Half of it would lap over your flooring, the other half would lap over your carpet.

 

ok I gotcha. Yeah well it's all on the same subfloor, but yeah the carpet is going to be a good 1/2" higher than the vinyl flooring because it's thick carpet, with padding.

 

One problem I've noticed, now that I'm getting closer to doing it, regardless of my method of transition, is that two of my doors had a seam right near the opening, right about where I would need to put the tack strip. Will the tack strip work with the taped seam there?

Also, I was considering just using a z bar there with no transition peice, just to have a clean transition, but seems like that's out of the question there, as the tape is too stiff anyway to tuck under the z bar.

 

If carpet is installed right, there is always a seam under where the door shuts. You want your transition there too so you can't see the carpet when the door is closed. I wouldn't use Z bar myself but that is just personal preference.

 

Ok, well I was trying to avoid using a transition t-mold piece there, but I might have to anyway. But I guess my question still stands, even if I do use the T-mold there, will the tack strip hang onto that seam tape if I stretch it over it?

 

If you are putting laminate down on the subfloor that we see in the bottom photo, your carpet is about 1 1/2" too long. It needs to be cut directly under the closed door.

You would lay your laminate down, it also ends halfway under the door.

I would probably do the transition this way. Your carpet would get stretched over a tack strip, and you could simply nail down a metal reducer molding over the carpet that also covers the edge of the laminate. It would get positioned so that it is nailed on the carpet side, not on or through the laminate flooring side. Or use a t moulding or reducer molding that matches your laminate floor.

Or terminate the carpet into a carpet gripper moulding. https://www.homedepot.com/p/M-D-Buil...3938/300199381. Hammer it down a little if needed and put your transition or reducer molding over that.

 

Yeah it's only cut that long because I left it that way when prepping to put the vinyl planks down. Left it long so I could trim it right later on. Great thanks for the advice. If I'm going to have any transition peice showing at all, I'd sthwr it match the flooring, so I will either do that or just tack strip it close to the flooring and use a seam sealer and tuck it down in. Thanks!