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. Doorway tack strip solution.
I appreciate you taking the time to make this video. I'm doing my own carpet, I'm very capable. But I'm not a carpet pro. I wouldn't have thought about this being an issue. You saved me and more importantly my kids from hurting their feet. Thank you.
Thank you for helping saving my great grand baby's feet. It's sad agents a1 yr old has learned to step way over a doorway to keep her feet from getting stuck and hurt.
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We just moved into a new house and both kids bedrooms had tacks that poke their feet when walking through the door. This took 10 minutes for me to fix on my own, most of that time spent on digging through unpacked boxes to find my felt. Thank you for saving my toddler's feet!
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Awesome solution! I was taught with a hatchet, simply push it against the tack strip and slide it back and forth after stretching. Bends most of the tacks down , but makes it almost impossible to reuse or restretch with it! I will be trying this next time I can!
That is great. It is actually two benefits in one not only does it help with the tacks, I think it will also help the carpet not to divet over time on the tack strip.
For the part with seam tape, it doesn't hurt to warm it slightly with a hair dryer. You can protect the floor if needed by laying a 6-in drywall spreader on the floor to deflect the heat.
You might try a roll of that mesh tape used for drywall seams. It's also sticky. Gorilla duct tape works too. It's thicker than regular or heavy duty. I use pad for pushing it down.
This is stupid!! 47 years this takes the cake!! Might as well put NOstrip at all that will break loose I guarantee!!! Just turn an tack with an electric staple gun!!
Ha ha Rueben. I could've swapped my short pin gripper knowledge for your 'How to stretch a carpet properly' knowledge had I known you have this issue. I can't wait for a Crain 520 to make it's way over to Blighty in March so I can start using a pole stretcher. I bought a mini stretcher to tide me over like Mike uses. It definitely stretches the carpet nice but still have to use a kicker and the gripper that your using to pull with has to be impeccably anchored, which is fine on wood subfloors but an issue on concrete when most of our crete floors are dross!
@@FloorsbySouthernboys as long as the tack strip is spaced properly I haven't had an issue. The common area of the homes in my service area is in front of bathrooms and transition to the kitchen
they make tack strip with shorter pins architecural for commercial carpet . that is a good idea when using z bar to avoid the dip in carpet from pad to strip. .
Good to know...but for us DIYers this fix is very useful!! I still have almost a full box of standard strips after doing two of my small apartments...so I'm not going to buy more just for the shorter pins.
Do you not have shorter pin tack strip / gripper rods in North America? In the UK we have short, medium (general purpose) and long (generally for really plush heavy carpets in high traffic situations)
There are 4 differant pin height tack strips. C pin 1/4 E pin 7/32 (Standard) D pin 3/16 J pin 5/32 These have been in existence through out tack strip history.
Or you can just use a piece of aluminum floor carpet trim. I was looking for a video on how to peel carpet back safely to fix subfloor squeaks and found this, not what I needed at all. It’s unreal that installers would leave the tack strip exposed. Surprised no one has sued them.
Great video and an inspiration to have a vinyl area near a front door. How did you do the corner with the Z-bar? I assume the bar was cut into little slices to form a radius?
Nice video Just curious wouldn’t a naplock have been better ? Reason I ask is, I think a bunch of debris would get caught in between the carpet and the other floor..
Manuel Andres You’re right, but some people does not like that, they like a smooth transition with no metal, I like the lock because it prevents your carpet from getting dirty from the mop
Question I've tapped down the nails with a hammer.... I found it locks in the carpet plus no nail issues. What are the pros to this method upon tapping in with a hammer? (Love your videos!)
James Harder it will usually leave dimples in the carpet, whenever you look at it you can see little indentations, and if it’s on concrete it’s a real bad idea to tap them down because then the tax strip will be replaced, you can only do that so many times on concrete before it involves Floor pads and glue in the tack strip, thanks for watching buddy, I appreciate you
We bought a house last year and this is started to annoy me I was hammering down before but now I'm thinking if there is like a plastic or something that matches carpet and just put on top the carpet and hammer that down. 🤔 My brain is thinking like a think plastic strip with something under it that will hold on top the carpet and tack strip to stay in place but I don't know anything and just brainstorming
With the Z bar how did you get it to curve around the edge there and to the door? I see installers use normal metal grip bar and have it curved like you have it to accent the wood floor but I was curious how you need the z bar and or metal trans bar
If you very sure you not going to have a restretch problem simply take 5/10 minutes to beat down the pins before you leave the job!! I love Zbar!!! If you have a helper or your wife they can beat the pins down as you move on!!
@@FloorsbySouthernboys those dimples are so slight that they can be justified in one way or the other!! I see it as a trade off!! Ask the customer what they want pin picks or a very slight dimple?? The felt in my opinion take away the depth of grip needed over many years of wear an tear!!! Look at how many jobs you are asked to restretch because carpet came off the pins!!! At some point our quest for perfection can be jeopardizesd by one thing or another!!?? Those dimples usually show most in very low quality builder carpets!!! My Dad ust to say " you can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear"!!! That true in this problem!? My opinion...
They make smaller size pin heights for this problem to use. Also when using bar just take a peice of scrap bar slide along bar and trim when floded is perfect will safe u lot of time. Also if your not using a strecher quit installing . We call that lazy sorry
I always use a stretcher, unless I’m just setting a wall such as in this video, I always stretch away from my entry ways such as this if possible, thank you for the information about the tack strip I appreciate you sharing that
Just took a hammer and tap the nails down by tapping on the carpet, you should be able to fill the tax with your fingers just take a hammer around the perimeter and tap them nails down
John 2k No sir it’s just part of doing a good quality job, now if I do something that takes an extra hour or something like that then I will charge extra but just for little things like this it just feels good doing the best you possibly can
Jorge408 yah, that’s helpful, but do you find, depending on the carpet, this technique sometimes shows “dimples” b/c it pins down individual tufts? This technique or commercial tack strip would eliminate the problem w/o the potential of pinning the pile.
Jose El Cerro Responde Records This was a floating floor so you must be cautious of that and allow proper expansion, I put it where the edge of the Z-bar word fall right over the edge of the plank
Just moved into my new apartment. The carpenter has a tack strip in every step in the stair case. Been hammering down each one as I feel them. They're annoying af!
