Carpet Tack Strips To Concrete

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.

Carpet tack strips to concrete.

2 remove metal carpet nail strips. Long carpet tack strip for wood or concrete subfloors 3 pack model hd 161 p 8. Halex poplar 7 8 in. We used the tack strip with concrete nails with no adhesive but i could see how the condition of the concrete might require it.

4 install tack into concrete. 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. The strips are nailed to the. Our flooring specialist ron demonstrates and explains what it takes to install a carpet tack strip on a basement concrete floor.

Halex poplar 1 in. The carpet tacks in tackless strips are needle sharp and can easily cut you. Halex tack strip is made of poplar wood material with pre nailed hi carbon nails. I helped a friend lay carpet for two years.

Carpet tack strips are wooden boards installed around the perimeter of a floor to hold carpet in place. Long carpet tack strip for concrete subfloors 100 pack model hd 340 p 8 28 65 28 65. Multiple hits with the hammer will just cause the concrete to crumble. Carpet tack strips are pieces of wood with small sharp nails sticking out of them that grip a carpet and hold it in place.

Wide x 4 ft. The key we found was that you have to get the nail into the concrete in one hit. Wide x 4 ft. The pins are angled for gripping and securing the carpet after stretching.

If the floor is made of concrete you are left with unsightly holes along the perimeter of the room. It meets the standards prescribed by the carpet rug institute cri 105. How to cut carpet tack from concrete. Halex tack strip is specified by more architects and contractors than any other competitive tack strip.