Carpet Tacks Sticking Up Through Carpet

There are really sharp carpet tacks sticking up all along the edges.

Carpet tacks sticking up through carpet. However it s not so unusual if you press very hard along edges of a carpet to feel the spikes but they shouldn t be sticking right through if that s what. This curls the sharp points over both locking the tacks onto the carpet and dulling them so that they don t poke your feet through the carpet. The carpet is usually placed over a carpet pad. Which leads me to my next point pun.

The carpet tack should grip the edges of the carpet through the carpet backing. Continue pulling the carpet off the tack strip by hand until you can fold back the entire wet section. We have carpet in the family room that abuts vinyl flooring laundry room and bathroom and hardwood flooring kitchen where the carpet meets both of these surfaces the tacking strip nails have begun to stick up completely through the carpet. Once the carpet is rolled out and installed it has to be tacked down.

The quick fix is to take a hammer and flatten the tacks either with the carpet in place or after peeling back the carpet. After the carpet was stretched the installer should have hammered down the pins on the tack strip. This also revealed the installers didn t replace the 30 year old damaged tack strip. Wet carpet pad is like a big sponge.

I assume this is where carpet transitions to tile or wood. The little nails on this exposed tack strip aren t at the 45 degree angle that they should be but are mostly pointing straight up. Entirely up to the customer home owner really. However the tacks will not be holding the carpet in place anymore.

Tear out the soggy pad first go to the corner nearest the wet area grab the carpet with pliers and pull the carpet off the tack strip. You have to get rid of it asap. Actually the way the carpet installers finish those tacks when they do it right is they take the edge of their tucking chisel or the side of a hammer head and rake it across the tacks. That s the gripper rods spikes that means either carpet is to thin wrong gripper rods used or glue should have been used.

When we have to repair these areas we were taught to remove the strip and to directly stick the carpet down using carpet glue a lot safer and lasts longer. However the carpet may stay if the carpet can just barely be tucked against the tile or wood. We have z bar metals that the carpet wraps around or it can just be tucked between the tack strip and tile if there is enough height difference as is the case for op. In multiple locations the tack strips are easily poking through the carpet.