Carpet Install Strip

Determine whether you have the proper transition strip for the flooring that meets your carpet.

Carpet install strip.

Next unroll the carpet padding from one side of the room to the other and slice it off with a box cutter. Two types of stretchers are essential to a good carpet installation. Transition strips are designed to level different materials. A long power stretcher that will brace against the walls to stretch the carpeting taut across the entire room and a knee kicker that will help you push the edges into corners and over the tack strips around the perimeter of the room.

Long carpet tack strip for wood subfloors 100 pack. Once the padding is in place staple it down every 2 feet and duct tape the seams together. Installing carpet is a job you can do yourself to save money. Install carpet pad so that any seams will be at right angles to those in the carpet.

To install carpet start by nailing the tack strips to the floor using 2 nails for each strip. Best seller halex poplar 1 in. Wide x 4 ft. The packaging will tell you whether the strip is designed to be used for carpet to carpet carpet to hardwood carpet to vinyl or carpet to ceramic.