The next step is to carefully cut the carpet.
Tuck carpet to hardwood.
This gives you some carpet to tuck in between the wood and the tack strip.
The gap gulley is where the end of the cut carpeting will tuck into.
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.
It will be nice and straight if you lay the bar and tack strip straight and are careful when trimming and tucking the carpet.
Once you have covered the doorway the project is completed.
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.
When cutting the carpet it must be cut at best an 1 8th inch longer or overlapping the hardwood.
Tuck the carpet in between the tack strip and the hardwood with a hook knife using gentle pressure.
Installing carpet to new hardwood at a doorway.