Rugs, Carpets and Carpeting - Help with a repair?

Hello! Last night our puppy decided that our carpet was his toy. Lovely, I know. He chewed on a small section of carpeting at the edge of the carpeting - at the transition strip between the carpet and our vinyl floor. It is a narrow metal transition, and there is a tack strip there. a small area of carpet is pulled off the tack strip and a little bit of the carpet is damaged at the strip over a few inch area. It isn't really noticable, but the carpet is loose and because of the damage I can't just poke it back onto the tack strip and under the transition threshold. Any ideas how to best repair this? It isn't a horrible looking mess, but puppy is going to be fixated on this area until I can get it well repaired. The underfloor is concrete, so I am unsure of how the threshold is attached to the floor. Is it possible to replace the threshold with a wider one (maybe wood so it isn't ugly? Anbd if so, how doses the threshold get attched to the floor, since ir is on concrete?) or should we somehow stretch the carpet to get it back under the original threshold? Do I need to somehow seal the edge of the carpet so it won't continue to ravel (fray check or something?)

Thanks for any help you can give. I'd love some tips before that trip to the hardware store to wander around looking for the solution.

Angela

A good pop and a loud NO, will keep the puppy in check!

It may be able to be restretched enought to trim off the effected area. If not a patch is in order.

if it is on concrete, more than likely the transition is a "tap down" metal, or a "grip metal" as we call them. (It can be others but lets assume that). In this area, a "few inches" is a LOT. If the carpet still has some elasticity in that backing and the room is a good 15 feet or more, and the carpet length is runing INTO the metal (as side stretching is FAR less giving), you crank up your heat for the rug to soften a bit, you MAY get a power stretcher on that. What the installer would do is, lift the tackless lip up gently (providing he didnt hammer it down to China (some folks think its "smash down, instead of "TAP- down") and take the entire carpet edge OUT of the track. Then try to restretch it in (as long as all i said above is in order) Keep in mind, over stretching is not good either. Sometimes placing a tackless strip against the metal to back it up (for strength is done) If you apply too much tension the metal my pop out of the concrete since getting nails to set in concrete is NOT like getting them in wood. If that is a berber...be careful.

I suggest a nice wood transition (as you said), glued to the floor (3/4 stock is fine, though if the carpet is thin you may have a bump there but no big deal) If your gluing the wood down, take an extra minute and glue the tackless down too and let that cure with the wood before reinstalling the carpet. Gently tap the concrete nails in to hold the tack in place as it cures (about a pencil thickness away from the wood) If the nails dont go in, then just tap them ever so slightly as to just pierce the concrete enough to hold the tack in place while it cures. Then, pull the nails out the followig day. You CAN try to send those nails down after the glue hardens. Sometimes the glue helps them seat properly, sometimes it doesnt, inwhich i would try one, and if not, yank them all out.


Side note:

Never buy a wood (or any) transition with the intent to butt carpet against it, if its meant for hardgoods to hardgoods. You dont want a taper on both sides, you need a flat side for tucking the carpet. (especially on concrete as staples wont save you!) cant tell you how many people make this mistake...pretty much every customer that i ever had that bought a transition.


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QUOTE=Momzilla]Hello! Last night our puppy decided that our carpet was his toy. Lovely, I know. He chewed on a small section of carpeting at the edge of the carpeting - at the transition strip between the carpet and our vinyl floor. It is a narrow metal transition, and there is a tack strip there. a small area of carpet is pulled off the tack strip and a little bit of the carpet is damaged at the strip over a few inch area. It isn't really noticable, but the carpet is loose and because of the damage I can't just poke it back onto the tack strip and under the transition threshold. Any ideas how to best repair this? It isn't a horrible looking mess, but puppy is going to be fixated on this area until I can get it well repaired. The underfloor is concrete, so I am unsure of how the threshold is attached to the floor. Is it possible to replace the threshold with a wider one (maybe wood so it isn't ugly? Anbd if so, how doses the threshold get attched to the floor, since ir is on concrete?) or should we somehow stretch the carpet to get it back under the original threshold? Do I need to somehow seal the edge of the carpet so it won't continue to ravel (fray check or something?)

Thanks for any help you can give. I'd love some tips before that trip to the hardware store to wander around looking for the solution.

Angela[/QUOTE]