Laying Tack Strips Carpet

The key material for this traditional method is the carpet tack strip 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.

Laying tack strips carpet.

Nail the tack strips to the wooden subfloor or if installing carpet over concrete use masonry tacks or an epoxy adhesive attach the strips to the floor. After removing all the furniture and old floor covering from the room cover the wood subfloor with carpet padding. How to install carpet 1. To install carpet start by nailing the tack strips to the floor using 2 nails for each strip.

Again these tools are easy for a professional to use but can be tricky for a novice to use correctly. Our flooring specialist ron demonstrates and explains what it takes to install a carpet tack strip on a basement concrete floor. Tack strips are strips of wood with sharp pointed tacks. For novice diyers the temptation is to shove the carpet tack strips sometimes called tackless.

Install tack strips with a gap between the wall. Next unroll the carpet padding from one side of the room to the other and slice it off with a box cutter. The less moving this monster of a piece the better. Loosely lay out the carpet in approximately the correct position.

Install the carpet tack strips photo by ryan hulvat. Tack down the padding with a stapler. Getting the carpet over the spikes of the tack strip requires the use of a carpet stretcher and carpet kicker. Tack strips are sometimes called tackless strips because they eliminate the need for using individual carpet tacks to hold carpeting to the floor.