When cutting the carpet it must be cut at best an 1 8th inch longer or overlapping the hardwood.
Tuck carpet to hardwood.
Installing carpet to new hardwood at a doorway.
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.
Nov 10 2009 installing carpet to new hardwood at a doorway to turn and finish a carpet edge you use a carpet z bar along with tack strip.
The gap gulley is where the end of the cut carpeting will tuck into.
Jul 27 2017.
Tuck the carpet in between the tack strip and the hardwood with a hook knife using gentle pressure.
This gives you some carpet to tuck in between the wood and the tack strip.
Once you have covered the doorway the project is completed.
There is also a tool called a carpet trimmer which is much safer but can easily cut the carpet too short if you don t cut slow.