Flooring Tile - Ceramic Tile/Carpet thresholds?
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09-09-00, 11:31 AM
I am installing ceramic tile in my kitchen. I'm looking for suggestions on the best type of threshold to use where the carpet meets the tile. The tile is a sandstone color and the carpet is a little darker shade of brown so the typical white marble clashes. Any ideas on what to use and installation tips. Also, the metal strip that holds the carpet to the linoleum is still there. Will I need to remove it?
09-09-00, 11:31 PM
Mechamc:
Go to www.johnsonite.com (http://www.johnsonite.com) and see if they show any of their vinyl transitions on their site. If not, you can see them at any flooring installation supply store, and if you don't know who sells flooring installation supplies in your town, phone any carpet place.
The metal strip you mentioned is called "naplock" and will have to come out. It's just nailed down.
Johnsonite makes vinyl moldings to fit aluminum track base. You nail the aluminum track base down along the edge of the ceramic tile floor. Then you stretch the carpet and hook it on the pins in the track base. Then you push in their CE-XX-C carpet to ceramic tile vinyl moldings (which comes in 26 colours) to fit into the track and cover the edges of both the carpet and the tile.
The straight pinned track base is MT-00-B. Track base MTC-00-B is also pinned for stretching a carpet onto, but it's slotted so that you can bend it to accomodate a contoured transition instead of a straight one.
Go to www.johnsonite.com (http://www.johnsonite.com) and see if they show any of their vinyl transitions on their site. If not, you can see them at any flooring installation supply store, and if you don't know who sells flooring installation supplies in your town, phone any carpet place.
The metal strip you mentioned is called "naplock" and will have to come out. It's just nailed down.
Johnsonite makes vinyl moldings to fit aluminum track base. You nail the aluminum track base down along the edge of the ceramic tile floor. Then you stretch the carpet and hook it on the pins in the track base. Then you push in their CE-XX-C carpet to ceramic tile vinyl moldings (which comes in 26 colours) to fit into the track and cover the edges of both the carpet and the tile.
The straight pinned track base is MT-00-B. Track base MTC-00-B is also pinned for stretching a carpet onto, but it's slotted so that you can bend it to accomodate a contoured transition instead of a straight one.