Sharp carpet tack strips poking through the floor
Carpet tack strips are poking through the carpet around room perimeters and doorways, jabbing people in the feet and even causing bleeding. This hazard makes walking barefoot near edges painful and forces homeowners to tear up the carpet to find and fix the exposed sharp points.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Tap down the offending tack strips with a hammer or finish hammer.
- 2Wear shoes when walking near the baseboards or walls.
- 3Upgrade to a thicker carpet.
- 4Hitting the tackless pins at an angle with a hammer to bend them away from toes
- 5Beating the nails down or grinding them off
- 6Knocking the pins flat with a hammer
- 7Removing the tack strip entirely or replacing the carpet
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“We noticed it when we stepped on a sharp object walking in a doorway where carpet began and the hard floor ends otherwise we wouldn’t have noticed.”source ↗
“After our feet bled for many years, I finally pulled up the carpet and saw the cause.”source ↗
“If we push down with our foot we feel a sharp object.”source ↗
Where this came up
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