My carpet installer is currently using this for installation of tack strips in an occupied 250 room hotel with post tensioned concrete slabs that we are renovating where noise is an issue for the client.
Install carpet tack strip concrete.
Then tuck the carpet edges into the wall corners just below the base edge of the baseboard.
Tack strips are sometimes called tackless strips because they eliminate the need for using individual carpet tacks to hold carpeting to the floor.
2 remove metal carpet nail strips.
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I have done it many times on wood floors but i m a little leary about concrete.
I can t have it stretched tucked now because it might tear.
Understand that the carpet is worn shows half the tack strip.
Ensure that the carpet is well laid over the tack strips so that the nail strips can go into it and hold it into place.
Once the carpet is in place start cutting along the edges.
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4 install tack into concrete.
Nail the tack strips to the wooden subfloor or if installing carpet over concrete use masonry tacks or an epoxy adhesive attach the strips to the floor.
This product would is actually labeled for use in securing tack strips to substrates like concrete.
The carpet tacks in tackless strips are needle sharp and can easily cut you.
Allow 2 inches of carpet above the edges along the perimeter of the wall.
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Then lay tack strips around the perimeter of the room and install your strips of padding.
Plus aren t they blue.
1 remove the tack strip drill holes with masonry bit put anchors in concrete but masonry screws have a large rounded top stick up look tacky.
Rugs carpets and carpeting tack strips to concrete hi i need to install a carpet on concrete.
Before you install the carpet make sure to check the concrete for any moisture issues that need to be addressed.
My options as i can see are.
Install tackless strips peeling back the carpet as the carpet is pulled back a lot of care is put to avoid destruction of the fiber on the carpet as well as the.