🔥 Transition Carpet To Hardwood 🔥 Like A Blissfully Successful Flooring Installer!

In this video I share exact steps to prepare and stretch carpet to a hardwood transition strip!
Fire away with any questions about the carpet and flooring industry and I’ll create videos answering your questions

[@codycampbell6805]

Professional, but I couldn’t help but laugh with your endearing tone about the big beautiful beefy carpet, and straight cold about the hardwood. You’re definitely a carpet guy. Thanks for quality information.

[@KevinGeneFeldman]

I would like the carpet industry to create a different method of holding the carpet that doesn't result in me stabbing my foot every time I step on the edge of a carpet.

[@PamelasEngel]

Agreed 😭🤣 Every time I hear my my kid say ouch I know he stepped over the threshold too close it sure is painful!

[@stevehamman4465]

You can take the head of a hammer, press it down on the tack strip while moving it across the pins in the tack strip!! It will bend those little tack pins down. Worst case, pound them down with the hammer!! Don't really want to pound down could cause issues down the road! They used to supply different size pins in tack strip, but not anymore! I carry felt and tape to put on the pond if the carpet is to thin and I know they'll poke through! Good luck!!

[@savanahprice7148]

How do you keep tack strip from stabbing the crap out of your feet after installed?

[@thethreewheelercowboy521]

Thanks for the videos. It’s helping me understand it all.

[@BladeUtah]

This is so helpful, thank you for posting it!

[@ss442es]

Thanks a lot. I used to install carpet with a friend about 40 years ago and things change but some remain the same. I have 4 transitions to install that are carpet to engineered wood or tile and planned on doing exactly what you did here with tack strip. These however are simple doorways for the most part. I will do the tack strip and stuff. I know how to do that. Thanks again.

[@davetaulker6721]

I have a question for you, I am having issues with the transition/threshold strips in my house where the wood floor meets the carpet not staying down. I have tried different nails with no luck. Any helpful suggestions would be greatly appreciated

[@realtoralberto]

Great job! You’re really good at what you do 👏🏻

[@knoxvillehomerenovationsll2399]

Thanks! Not being a carpet guy, I just needed to watch this one video and I am set. On another note, I feel for the guy who is slamming his knee on the kicker. He will be sorry he took this job when he is my age.

[@Icouldnotthinkofanything]

So a really good vacuum won’t eventually pull the tucked in portion back out?

[@regularguyfixes3142]

My carpet guys did this. I didn't even know you could transition like this back then without the tacky strips over top. But we vaccume with a rainbow all the time never notice any issues...

[@stevehamman4465]

If the carpet is properly stretched it hooks onto the pins and won't come loose unless you pull pretty hard! If a vacuum pulls it loose it was not installed correctly! I was taught to use a sealer in the gap before tucking the carpet and that is still how you are supposed to do it! This guy is a hack , he does flips and rental units! He would never make it doing residential properties!

[@zeroezero2089]

This vid serious saved me some $$$$

[@georgepauley1357]

Great video and explanation. nicely done.

[@CalmSwings]

Any advice on a carpet meeting with a curved hard floor?

[@andreaoudshoorn8002]

How do you complete this type of transition with a 90 degree angle? We have a foyer/entryway we are trying to convert to using the existing hardwood.

[@Eazytarget]

Great video until you blew out my eardrum’s with the cheer at the end

[@nikocasey4012]

How does the carpet you tucked into that 1/4 gap stay in place? And not come out with traffic

[@stevehamman4465]

This is why the pins in the tack strip go towards the wall!! The stretch of the carpet hooks onto the pins with pressure and won't come loose!!! If it does come loose it wasn't properly stretched

[@idcharles3739]

If I knew all the jargon like reducer, I wouldn't need to watch the video

[@pbzkhaos]

The tack strips are poking through and cutting our feet what should we do?

[@stevehamman4465]

Use the head of a hammer and press down on the pins sweeping back and forth! They'll bend down for you! I don't suggest pounding them down, may cause issues down the road!

[@miracleking-coop]

Very nice

[@kdbryant4480]

Can anyone tell me the color of that wood and the color of that carpet? That is literally the exact same color scheme I’m looking for!! Beautiful job!!!

[@binaryzone]

Great help!!

[@karlkerbrat2085]

so how did you set the other side to transition to the carpet? what do you call the trim you have running along the edge of the carpet?

[@stevehamman4465]

Carpet is the last part of the build!!!! The hard surface manufacturers make transitions for their products. They are, T- mold,a reducer, and carpet edge and many more. The wood floor has the transition applied , then the carpet gets installed to it. Hope this helps you!

[@joewrightjr7859]

Do this work with going from carpet to plank flooring.

[@dieseldime]

I was looking for a video like this to get an idea if I can do something. I'm wanting to glue a 3/4 inch rubber mat down on my concrete floor for my big safe to sit on, I want to run my carpet right up to the rubber nice and clean, (the safe will entirely cover the rubber) do you think this method here would work for me. I'm treating it like hardwood since they are the same thickness.

[@56Tyskie]

Nice!

[@robroby10]

Nice

[@israelnunez644]

A good way to do seams I been having trouble doing them

[@billsmith9249]

I need this service for 2 standard doorways just outside Toledo, OH if anyone knows a pro in this area. :/

[@chuychubasquino2957]

Dude ya got mad energy! Thanks. How much to rent a stretcher and knee kicker. Ball park. Thanking you in advance

[@CarpetExpertBlueprint]

Thank you!

[@CarpetExpertBlueprint]

I’d guess $25.00 on a kicker but honestly have no clue on the stretchers

[@Butlrm01]

If I laid some flooring myself and need this done at the transitions, how would I convey that to the carpet guy/ handyman?

[@Retrobovine]

This is my questions exactly.

[@4G64SicKShoT]

Tuck it to whats down and not to use a transition

[@dondaddycrewhuncho7983]

So should I do my carpet first or my wood flooring in a remodel?

[@stevehamman4465]

Carpet should always be the last part of a build !!! Oh my bad,,,, paint touch up for the scratches from the carpet install!!

[@zeberifo]

Wouldn’t a vacuum suck out your tucked in edge??

[@ncboy64]

Nice! Question - if both rooms had hardwood and you carpeted the right side over the wood how would put in a transition? They'd be uneven. I'm not installing up to a doorway but an archway.

[@regularguyfixes3142]

I know what your talking about. Not sure if the height will be that noticable. You could try few things. Remove the flooring piece closest to the transition. Then get some thinner plywood, shim it to floor height on one side then let it taper down lower than the wood floor your running into. Then when the carpet is layed over, it will slowly drop to the height of the floor without being noticable. Or the tacky wood transition pieces that have a carpet side and a wood floor side.

[@stevehamman4465]

Carpet is going to raise a floor about an inch. In order to make both floors level you're going to have to do some construction that is going to be expensive!! You can transition with flat medal or gripper medal. They look good and are not a tripping hazard. There are many more options but I'm not looking at your floor so I can only give you the basics!! Good luck!

[@dreamlandesign]

Hi, I remove the carpet from my stairs, but I don’t know how to transition from lvp stairs to carpet hallway. Any ideas?

[@4G64SicKShoT]

You do the very first step in carpet, or end it before the stair tread with a turn and tack or some kind of transition

[@debradaleo4986]

Is a tackstrip needed??

[@andrewwilson933]

How would you install carpet in the centre of your living room with the wood laminate floor all around it. Can you make a video of this type of application ?

[@pizzasounds3387]

I'd just get a carpet rug at that point and put it on top of the laminate floor, that makes it easier to clean, easier to do, and will look nice if you get sick of the rug, you can change it out.

[@stevehamman4465]

I'm taking it that you have laminate on the entire floor !!?? Buy a rug with non slip backing or a piece of carpet and have it bound. Most cities have someone that does binding! Again non slip pad under the rug! If the wood is just around the perimeter, carpet can be installed in the center of the room!! It's called an inlay. It's no big deal!! And no extra charge should be made! Good luck!

[@bw7925]

if you use felt on top of tack strip you won't poke your feet when walking over it

[@earthn1447]

Great video! Thanks..But, cut it how close to the hardwood? Couldn't make out what you said.

[@lookingforthebigguyricklas5503]

👍

[@kelly07holt]

Can you rent a crab stretcher? Or do I need to buy one? ugh

[@4G64SicKShoT]

Dont use a crab stretcher if you dont know what you are doing. Get it professionally installed or youll be calling someone in 6 months when you have wrinkles down the middle of your carpet

[@sax2jordan]

How would you put down the tack strip if your sub floor is concrete?

[@stevehamman4465]

They sell tack strip with concrete pins already in them. There. 7/16pins buy a small bag of 5/8 they work better!! You might even find strip with 5/8 already in them also,, just harder to find !! When I do crete I use liquid nail and crete nails the 5/8s. I also double strip the tack strip when going up to any hard surface whether crete or wood floor!! Good luck!!

[@chuychubasquino2957]

How would I do this without the professional tools?

[@Jeff-ql3tg]

Rent them Hook knife is rather inexpensive

[@chuychubasquino2957]

@@Jeff-ql3tg thank you.

[@ReinSman100]

Min charge here is 150.00.

[@CarpetExpertBlueprint]

ReinSman100 boom! I like that! Where are you based again?

[@ReinSman100]

@@CarpetExpertBlueprint Just below Huntsville al. Decatur Al. I'm speaking of the carpet stores here. An individual like myself is cheaper. Po boy like me needs work.

[@CarpetExpertBlueprint]

ReinSman100 get that $$$$$!!

[@joybiblestudy6016]

carpet meets vinyl floating floor. How to install without a transition piece.

[@HumanWritesRodBerg]

Take your time. Explain more. Slow down.