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.
Tuck carpet to hardwood.
It will be nice and straight if you lay the bar and tack strip straight and are careful when trimming and tucking the carpet.
The gap gulley is where the end of the cut carpeting will tuck into.
Installing carpet to new hardwood at a doorway.
Jul 27 2017.
When cutting the carpet it must be cut at best an 1 8th inch longer or overlapping the hardwood.
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.
For thinner carpet you may want to place it closer and vice versa for thicker carpeting.
This gives you some carpet to tuck in between the wood and the tack strip.
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.