Install Carpet Gripper Strip

Use the knee kicker to fit the carpet over the hooks in the carpet.

Install carpet gripper strip.

Once the carpet is completely tucked remove the spreader and clean up your tools. Use tack nails and a hammer to secure the metal carpet strips to the flooring. It is used to transition to any adjoining surface that is lies lower the carpet. An edge gripper is installed by being tacked to the subfloor.

If you are nailing into concrete use concrete nails to secure the strips. Thus the carpet would have to be secured on the cement floor distance of 12 feet or width of room with what i believe to be a gripper edge. When done properly installing a carpet gripper or transition strip will give your carpet installation job a professionally finished look. At present the family room carpet is attached to a tackless strip that is secured on the wooden floor.

Measure the threshold and cut the carpet gripper to length with a hack saw. Install carpet transition strips at thresholds where carpet meets another type of flooring. A carpet gripper also referred to as a tack strip is a long strip of wood about 1 4 inch thick and 1 inch wide that contains several sharp pins or tacks. Use a carpet tuck tool to make sure the carpet is properly tucked into the carpet gripper.

Screw the carpet trim to the floor. Lay out the metal carpet strip along the edge of the guide string and use a hacksaw to trim any excess carpet strips. Seal the edge of the carpet with latex seam sealer to prevent unraveling. A carpet edge gripper is an aluminum strip that holds the edge of carpet with sharp metal teeth.

Leave a gap the thickness of the carpet s pile between the gripper strip and the wall. This is where you will tuck the edges of the carpet during installation.