Rugs, Carpets and Carpeting - Carpet to Laminate transition

I have installed laminate wood floors in my living room and hallway, and will transition to carpet at the doorways to the bedrooms. I have T mold transition strips, but was wondering if I need to install carpet tack strips in the doorways. If so, does the edge of the T mold overlay the tack strip?

Thanks in advance!

Yes, it will. Install the transition track, install the tack strip, stretch the carpet to it, trim it to the track, and then install the transition piece. This is assuming the laminate is finished. If not, do all of it except installing the transition piece. Put that down last.

"T" molding is actually not the right molding to bridge over carpet, The carpet will aloow that side to flex and crack off.


You need an endcap carpet reducer. Tackstrip, and stretch and tuck, with a bead of latex seam sealer in the gully between the transition molding and the tackstrip,

Good grief, don't get old, it ain't worth it. I should have noticed that also. Carpet to laminate transitions normally have one side that lips over the laminate and one side the carpet is stuffed to, not under for the reason pointed out. In that instance, the tack strip is installed after the transition piece is in and the carpet is stretched in and stuffed, just like a wall.

Thanks for the info. Luckily, I actually had reducer strips, not T mold as I had indicated.

How much space is needed between the end cap and the tack strip?

Does the seam sealer join the carpet to the concrete sub-floor, or the end cap?

1) About the thickness of your fingers as you're holding the strip to set it in place or around a quarter inch.
2) Sorta both. It goes in a bead along the point where the transition and floor meet and keeps the carpet from fraying or coming untucked over time. We stuff carpet under base board most of the time so this isn't an issue in most instances. But, in this case, there's nothing to hide the raw edge so you don't want it coming up, which it will usually do if you don't sort of glue it down.