Tack Strip Poking Through Carpet

What is a carpet tack strip.

Tack strip poking through carpet.

The installers actually tried to leave the metal transition piece until my wife remembered paying for that silver metal transition. In multiple locations the tack strips are easily poking through the carpet. This curls the sharp points over both locking the tacks onto the carpet and dulling them so that they don t poke your feet through the carpet. After the carpet was stretched the installer should have hammered down the pins on the tack strip.

Starting at one end of the loose carpet set the head of the kicker about 2 in. The tack strip is an inch from the silver metal piece. Obviously the thickness of the carpet has a bearing on whether the tacks will be a problem in a walk area. Force the carpet into the tack strip with a stiff putty knife.

The worst area is where the carpet meets the laundry room where the carpet transitions to linoleum. Beating the tack strip pins down through the carpet will usually work the risk being it may dimple the carpet slightly. We have z bar metals that the carpet wraps around or it can just be tucked between the tack strip and tile if there is enough height difference as is the case for op. Also tuck the edge of the carpet into the space between the wall and the tack strip with a putty knife.

When the tack strips are nailed screwed or glued to the subfloor with the tacks angled toward the wall the tacks will grip the carpet backing and hold the carpet in place as it is installed. Once the carpet is stretched onto the pins they must be tapped over in a doorway tile junction to reduce the problem of feeling the tacks through the carpet. From the tack strip and nudge the carpet tight against the wall. The key material for this traditional method is the carpet tack strip.

Op can do this and the problem will go away. This will show how to take care of that pesky tack strip the doorways that is always poking your feet when you step on it. The carpet in general seems to be shedding.