The next step is to carefully cut the carpet.
Tuck carpet to hardwood.
Once you have covered the doorway the project is completed.
This gives you some carpet to tuck in between the wood and the tack strip.
Tuck the carpet in between the tack strip and the hardwood with a hook knife using gentle pressure.
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.
When cutting the carpet it must be cut at best an 1 8th inch longer or overlapping the hardwood.
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.
It will be nice and straight if you lay the bar and tack strip straight and are careful when trimming and tucking the carpet.
Jul 27 2017.
Installing carpet to new hardwood at a doorway.