Tack Strip Nails Poking Through Carpet

Every time i go up and down the stairs i can sometimes feel the nails but i can always feel the wooden tack strip itself making the stairs uneven.

Tack strip nails poking through carpet. When we have to repair these areas we were taught to remove the strip and to directly stick the carpet down using carpet glue a lot safer and lasts longer. We stepped on painful tack strips where the carpet and hardwood meet. Now i can t forget. The nail strips are only supposed to be along the walls.

Tack strip poking through carpet. In multiple locations the tack strips are easily poking through the carpet. That had no issues with bits poking through so it must be the quality of the fitting rather than the carpet itself to a large extent. In which case i say pound the nails down and let it be.

All but one are doorways some with doors some without. But if significant pressure is put on the carpet like oh i don t know the body weight of an adult human that s when the nails come out and poke you. Thinner carpets require smaller tack strips with smaller pins either a d or e type. The pins can be prevented from poking through a thinner carpet by covering them before the carpet is installed.

Which leads me to my next point pun. With my last carpet a berber i didn t feel the nails or the tack strip so much so i didn t even know tack strips existed. I m already tired of stepping on the tacks that poke through the carpet at the transitions between carpet berber and ceramic tile. We were going to use the same place but when we went round.

You can take a hammer and lightly hit the carpet to bend the tack nails downward. But when the nails were poking through my carpet i hit them with a hammer. Pitch a fit to the installer tack strip should never poke through the carpet if it is properly installed. I just moved into a brand new home two weeks ago.

Kylenelson nov 30 2012 7. When i did a carpet installation course we were always told not to install tack strips in walk way areas due to the problems arising such as nails sticking out after the carpet starts to wear. The little nails on this exposed tack strip aren t at the 45 degree angle that they should be but are mostly pointing straight up. Don willott owner of don s floor coverings mentions that the typical carpet installation uses a c style tack strip.

When you replace the carpet have them use carpet tape instead of tack strips good luck. The edge of the tiles that are adjacent to the carpet is sharp and partially exposed so you have to make sure you don t step on a tile edge either.