Tackless Carpet Installation

Install the tackless strips cut the tackless strips to size with a strip cutter or heavy snips image 1.

Tackless carpet installation. Commercial carpet as they are frequently the cause of re stretch calls and seam splitting. Don t install tackless strips across thresholds or doorways. In this installation strips of wood called tackless strip are nailed or sometimes glued to the floor around the edges of the room. Traxx is a manufacturer of specialty engineered flooring products rigorously tested to ensure long term performance for even the most demanding installations.

Padding is secured to the floor in the middle of the room. The wooden strip with anticipating. Padding is secured to the floor in the middle of the room. Tackless strip commercial installations require either an architectural or commercial grade tackless strip 3 rows of pins or double strips of type c tackless.

Nail the strips 1 2 from the wall image 2. The tacks on the strips are sharp and could poke through the carpet and hurt your feet. In this installation strips of wood called tackless strip are nailed or sometimes glued to the floor around the edges of the room. These strips have hundreds of nails that are angled in towards the wall.

No really it is called tackless because in most situations it eliminates the need for using carpet tacks to hold the carpet in place giving you a tackless installation. Stretch in carpet installation is the most popular installation methods in homes. For those of you looking over our shoulders a tackless strip is a thin strip of plywood use to hold carpet tight around the edges of a room or in some instances across doorways and around other types of flooring such as wood or tile. These strips have hundreds of nails that are angled in towards the wall.

Place the tackless strip on the floor in the doorway with the angled pins in the strip turned away from the room where the carpet will be installed. Stretch in carpet installation is the most popular installation methods in homes.