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Saw a hotel in Columbus redo 40 rooms with no transition strips at the doorways
Stayed at a place near the airport in Columbus two weeks ago for my cousin's wedding and could not stop staring at the carpet. Every room doorway had the carpet running straight into the tile with no metal strip, just a tucked edge. I install for a living so my wife thinks I'm nuts, but I pulled one corner back with my shoe and the edge was tucked tight under the baseboard, clean as could be. Looked like they used a power stretcher and a knee kicker right up to the tile, then trimmed it flush. What got me was the wear, no fraying at all after what had to be a few years of luggage getting dragged over it. I've always been a strip guy because it hides a sloppy cut, but this made me think a good tuck job just looks better. Anybody out there doing doorway tucks instead of strips on commercial jobs, and how do you get the tile guy to leave you enough room?
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aaron_foster2013d ago
I have stayed in about 200 hotels over the years and never once thought to look at the doorways, so that detail about the tucked edge staying clean after years of luggage is a real eye opener. The part nobody has brought up yet is what happens when the tile guy sets his floor first and leaves you a 1/4 inch gap, because in my experience the carpet layer is the last trade in and gets whatever is left. A power stretcher and knee kicker only save you if there is enough carpet to grab and stretch from the right direction, so on a job where the tile runs wall to wall you may not have room to work. That means the fix has to happen way earlier, at the layout meeting, not the day you show up with your tools. What I would want to know from anyone doing these tucks is whether the baseboard is notched or shimmed to give the carpet somewhere to hide. Get that detail wrong and the tuck will pop the first time housekeeping runs a vacuum over it.
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