HOW TO TRANSITION CARPET TO TILE
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- this video shows how to transition carpet to tile the professional way
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knee kicker
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updated version of my carpet trimmer
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stair tool/packer
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carpet knife
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As professional as they come. Great video with perfect explanations for each step. I really want to master using the carpet trimmer like you do. Thanks for sharing!
Gold Coast Flooring | Carpet & Tile Care Thank you Nick
After floor laying and carpet fitting for 25yrs I can say with first hand knowledge that ....if you run a tacking strip across a door or any opening the foot traffic will cause the pins to break down the backing and premature wear will result .. tack strips are designed to be used only around the perimeter (as this happens also when use on stair risers where they get kicked) again the wall etc ..where there is no foot traffic ... best practise is to turn and tack or use a z profile bar !!!
Thanks for the fab tip. If you could do us all a favor and find a youtube video showing your approved techniques, we'd all love to learn that. Thank you.
Such beautiful workmanship on the tiles around those door jambs and casings! When in doubt, fill it with grout.
Do your best, and caulk the rest 👍
It's not about the grout, and it's never a caulk walk. Best zest in a tile fest is a good nibble that solves all quibble, cut with care a little less than you dare, than nibble last bits 'til it fits. If all is square your reward will be fair, but never forget the mortar must not be too wet. Jambs are like hams, they come in porkey and slim, casings are just facings, you need to tile under all trim.
You made it look so easy that I better hire someone instead. Great job by the way.
Barry Waterfield lol
Getting ready to install a carpet in a small landing area. Your videos are VERY helpful!!!! One question about carpet to tile and the distance of the tack strip to the tile for the best tuck. I'm guessing 3/16" gap?
That will be perfect
Yes any more it’s too much it won’t secure properly it will rise up when you pull on it and any closer it won’t secure properly and it will be too tight that’s a good length
You want just enough to tap in and have a flush trans
I hope this helps
A little late but which do you like better using this method or using a z-bar?
Francisco Hernandez i always tuck to tile with latex, i never zbar to tile
I just had carpet installed meeting up with tile like in your video.
What do I do about stepping on the 2 tack strips right there?
@@johnsoncountytree5131 take a hammer and tap on the carpet where the strip is and that will bend the tacks down. Do a small bit first and then check to see if there is visible dimples then carry on if you are ok with the look
Shouldn’t you turn and tuck it next to tile? Won’t that eventually fray and come up over time?
No, sir, not with the latex in the gully
Do you want the carpet to finsih flush with the tile or above the tile? If above, how much?
That’s a personal Preference, I would not want it to much higher but yet I don’t wanna lower either, a little higher is actually better because it cushions the edge of the tile when you step on it
That tile is killin me lol i wanna fix it!! Good job on carpet!!
Chris G thanks
How to secure throw rugs on carpet
So funny...I was thinking the same. Great carpet join to a crappy tile job.
Nice! Doing this tomorrow. My tile job is far more worse than the one in this video, but I'm cool with it.
Thanks for the simple explanation.
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Who cut those tiles? 4 metre gap between tile and skirt
😂😂 I hear you
That tile job…..Yikes..😬😬😬
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That is an art......good job.
Thank you
Thank you sir!!! this was just the video I needed to finish my tile install..Great tip with the silicone 👏🏾
Awesome
Thanks that looks doable.
What about for thinner carpet that lays lower beside a tile flooring, how do you transition it? Tile can be a tripping hazard
may cabotaje-dao th-cam.com/video/wDj_IDPxDVk/w-d-xo.html
Which direction did you lay the tack strip nails towards tile or away from
The nails should point toward the tile
@@FloorsbySouthernboys ty
I would never lay carpet, however…I always enjoy watching your helpful videos, Ruben! 👊🏽
Wendi Yee Thank you ma’am
Thanks, I was thinking of using a transition strip but after seeing this , I want to go it using the method you used, it's clean looking.
I agree, I’ll try not to use transition strips unless I have to
Everything I needed to know, thanks. I had new carpet installed several months ago, and then recently had time to tear out the beat-up old tile floor in the kitchen to replace with vinyl plank. I wanted to re-connect the rooms without having to put that ugly brass transition strip back in.
The Snekker Show That’s awesome, I’m glad this was useful for you, and I hope your kitchen floor turned out beautiful, I love vinyl plank flooring, thank you so much for your feedback it is always welcome and encouraged
Never really thought about using Wall trimmer. I've always cut from back in one motion but I've always a sealer.even in glue down carpet to tile reducers👍🏁😎.
russ sherry I use my trimmer for all cuts except for corners I think it’s much faster and more precise
Very helpful. Thanks.
Tim Sinnott You’re welcome, glad it helped
He is the bommb when it comes to learning how to install some carpet
PoppaDuck Thank you that was a nice complement
Great demo. Thank you! Just retiled the bathroom and now have to rejoin the hall carpet to it. Now I know how!
Jim McFarlane Awesome, thanks for your comment
Looks good I'm about remove my tack strip at the bedroom entrance
Great video! Do i really need to use the knee kicker?
Awesome tutorial, thanks bud! 👍
Francisco Davila You’re welcome, Glad you liked it
What do you do to avoid the Tack strip nails from poking through and bare feet jabbed on them?
Kevintomb I have a video coming out soon on that
Do you add a metal transition piece after that?
Leslie Clarke No ma’am this is a finished project
I use pad glue
How come you didn't use a z plate ? Customer preference ?
very helpful for a project that I am doing right now. Thanks
Mat Robertson You’re welcome
Does the strips not poke your feet when walking on them
Latex glue aka Elmer's school glue
Thank you! Just what I needed.
Craig Ballard awesome
Most tile floors don’t have tag strips in them. How would you transition if the whole floor was tile?
Willy Espinoza Not sure what you mean by tag strip, but this is what I would do, only difference is you would have to glue this down instead of nail it down th-cam.com/video/jQCeZyy7Nmo/w-d-xo.html
Thanks. Perfect for what I'm doing. I. Stretching the carpet at our threshold into the kitchen. This is perfect. Thanks.
Gene Smith you’re welcome and I’m glad it was able to help you
so where do you get a cutter like that cost prohibitive for a one time use? can they be rented. or is there a alturnative for cutting for a clean cut
Joe Scheller yeah I can’t remember how much they cost it’s actually called a carpet while tremor, and they do last a long time I still use mine that I bought 21 years ago and it’s not just for clean-cut, it definitely speed up the process and also gives you a clean-cut, they are very efficient tools
Can you do a video.. on how to trim carpet with padding(the carpet the comes with the padding stick to it)on a door.
Yelsin Cruz sure will
Whoever cut that tile around the door jamb is a bad person.
😂😂I hear ya, I see it a lot though
@@FloorsbySouthernboys I bet. Truth be told I was probably a bad person too at one point. I'm all better now though. lol
Looks very good, thanks for sharing.
Frank Contreras thank you
Best video I've seen on this process. How much space do you leave between the tack strip and the tile so you can tuck the carpet in there?
BL Christeson Thank you and I’ll leave about 3/8 of an inch gap
you make it look soooooooo easy. well done. Nice insight on the tools required.
Garrett A Thank you
Good on ya bud! I have never seen anyone else use latex to seal the edge like you have here. I've been doing it for years. Beautiful job!
Anthony Richmond Thank you sir, the stuff definitely holds up really well
What kind of latex seal is that?
You never use a stair tool when completing a transition from carpet to tile you always use a five in one or a Hawksbill knife and run a bead of latex seam sealer to tightly hold the carpet into the transition.
My bad buddy , I didn’t know that was the only way to do it
@@FloorsbySouthernboys You never use a stair tool a metal stair tool to tuck carpet because it to tick and wide to tile you always risk chipping the tile that’s a Nono any Professional knows that. The reason why you use a five in one tool or hawksbill knife is due to the simple fact that theses tools are very thin and strong so you reduce your chances of chipping the tile every time!
@@qualityflooringmanitousprings ok
@@FloorsbySouthernboys But your work is great keep up the good work and the video’s bud!….✊
@@qualityflooringmanitousprings 😀👍
your awsome thanks!
Greg Vasquez Glad it helped
I'd rather use a hook knife
to tuck it in rather than a stair tool
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This guy's a pro...first clue was the use of latex, then the attention to detail of the edge. Nice!
79lpcustom thank you I appreciate that
so if you think its a problem do it your way transitions are there to stub yout toe on
Like a pro!
Just completed this process myself and it was exactly as easy as it looked in your video. Amazing. Thank you.
Thanks for sharing man!
Daniel Bagherpour you're welcome
Thank you sir!
Nice quick clean demonstration!
Wait! That's to the old carpet! We're changing that
Looks good
Thank you
Great video! What tools did you use for this tutorial?
Did you put padding first or just put carpet directly on tile?
marquinaej Yes that is a stretching carpet so it does have Under it
What is the latex sealer?
It is a carpet seam sealer, it prevents the edge from coming loose and raveling next to tile , Closet tracks etc.
we bought a new home from meritage homes recently. the tack strip seems to be poking out like claws literally. it is a disaster waiting to happen. how do we fix it so it does not poke us in our legs dont bleed everytime we walk barefoot?
Archana Ganesh feel with your fingers where all the tacks are And take a hammer and just gently tap them down
well done
Aaron Beardsley thank you sir
Wow, that is great work.
Who ever installed the tile sucks cause you should cut the door jams and the tile goes under it
Brock Lavergne Yeah I know, in Arizona the town guys never cut door jams or even pull baseboards they always work up to everything
Don't see a stretcher in the room, you a bump it with a knee kicker guy?
Apex floor designs LLC/Jason Morgan Absolutely not, I even use the stretchers in sizable closets, I don’t kick anything, do more looking around on my channel and you will see , Thanks for dropping by I appreciate it
Good Job, Bubbles
How about similar situation but under cabinet toe kick?
Garrett A See if this helps. th-cam.com/video/LUOaWCBBnjo/w-d-xo.html
OMG dude, great transition to tile, but what the hell's with that ceramic tile installation? Whoever did that one should be boiled up to their neck and hot grout.
why?
thank you sir
Yeah idk about the wall trimmer on a tile line like that..
Howard Goldstein I use a carpet trimmer all the time against tile, you just have to lean your trimmer up so it cuts a little shorter, you can see my video “Carpet trimmer 101” To see more detail on this subject, thank you for taking an interest in my channel and watching
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Peter Dieteman 👍👍
why not use a z-bar ?
kk P I feel like Z-bar is for transitioning down , I never use Z-bar transitioning to tile
That latex sealer along the tile Edge is trash it just dries up and turns to nothing good attempt next time use real adhesive
ou812 ou812 Watch this and you will see how it holds even after two years. th-cam.com/video/geuMlSuweTE/w-d-xo.html
ou812 ou812 and here is another demo where latex was used by the installer th-cam.com/video/pNxUHQOTq48/w-d-xo.html. You cannot argue with the results
Nice job. Not tear out horrendous tile job.
Byron Welichko Thank you
Whats wrong with the tile?
Look at those sexy sneakers
James Lucas OK calm down now ,my shoes are currently in a relationship with my feet sorry lol 😂🤣😆
No threshold? Just wait until you start using a vacuum!!! It will start to fray, my brand new constructed home they did this technique, carpet is fraying after 1 day
Michael Kastner The late text that I put in the goalie stops that from fraying, , I have never had a doorway Ravel or fray That I have put latex in, and I put late text them all transitions such as this
have you ever done a trap door
Daniel Perez Yes sir Sure have
FloorsbySouthernboys do you have a video
Daniel Perez I sure don’t buddy, but as soon as I get the opportunity I will do one
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That was efficiently and clearly demonstrated. With an economy of words you explained what it takes others 15 minutes to say. Thank you also for not wasting my time with elaborate explanations about safety. Sometimes the options for epoxy and other goos are overwhelming. So a little more about the goo would help a unexperienced DIYer like me. Overall, excellent instruction.
Peter Kleine thank you and I’ll keep that in mind
You made that look so simple!
Great tip how to tuck the carpet down and creasing it back to make it hook better on the gripper , when did you start using seam sealer in the doorways is it really needed?
sausage man I just started using the latex seam sealer maybe 3 or 4 years ago, it's just a preventative step to ensure that the carpet never raval's or comes loose or anything not sure if you're familiar with latex sealer but it will dry stretchy if you put a nice bead in there it's going to work like a rubber band when it dries constantly pulling that carpet down into the crack so it just ensures me that I'm never going to have an issue out of that doorway
FloorsbySouthernboys it wold be nice to see how you fit carpet in a carpet to carpet door bar or how we like to call them in the uk a double door bar.
sausage man do you mean using z bar up to z bar if so I don't do that if I'm working to other carpet I will seem it together even though they're two different carpets I don't use z bar to z bar
FloorsbySouthernboys yeah it sounds the same, Over here we put bars in our doorways even if it's the same carpet. Just to let you know I used my trimmer for the first time I a while today and it worked perfectly your a genius!!
sausage man that's awesome glad to hear that
Don't know what i would have done without this video lol... Really??
Apex floor designs LLC/Jason Morgan yep really
I was told to never have tack -strips across doorway is a no no because the carpet will eventually wear down and exposed the tacks then you will have issues with someone poking their feet , is that correct ?
B F If you are transitioning down to something lower that is fine but if you’re working to something such as the tile or something that has some height to it you need tack strip
why not to use a z bar to make it right?but the way nice video
nando smith A person should never use Z bar next to tile, just my opinion
nando, this guy did it right. beautiful edge!
Difficult to hear!
Rented a house that had carpet installed like this, I loved getting stabbed in the foot by the tack strip everytime I walked into the room. Shouldn't you use a z bar?
tj newell unfortunately z-bar is put down with tack strip to and there's not really anything else you can do in the doorway working to tile without using a tack strip, only thing you might do is tap the tacks down with a hammer, but then you run the risk of putting dimples in your carpet because the tack strip nails will pull the backing of the carpet down when you tap them down, and if it's a pretty smooth looking carpet you will see dimples where the nails get pulled down
dont understand the carpet is 3/4 in thick you sure as hell aint going to have tsack strip coming through that unless your carpet is paper thin should be no problem