What are my options for transitioning 9/16" glue-down engineered prefinished flooring over concrete, to carpeted floors? The carpet is about the same height. What method of attaching the transition holds best?

Chris

9/16, you may get by with just tackstrip(may have to shim it with a strip of sheet vinyl to raise it slightly), stretching the carpet up on the tackstrip pins, Latex carpet sealer in the gully between the tackstrip and wood, trim a hair long of the hardwood, and tuck it into the latexed gully, using a butter knife, putty knife or anything flat, rolling it in the gully crisp and clean.

I call it a tuck n' tack. No moldings. Carpet tucks to the hardwood. Cleanest transition, IMO.

pound down the pins.. don't want any bloody feet.

Don't pound the pins down!! A layer or two of duct tape will make the pins not so tall and won't stick you in the foot, with low pile carpets.

Okay, what if my cut ends aren't cut perfect on my engineered and I need to make an overlap or threshold? How do I attach it to the floor (cement and wood) so it doesn't move? Nail or glue?

Glue and weight it down for a day. Clean up any glue ooze.

another use for duct tape...........
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Pound the tack-strip nails down!! It's easier... and holds the carpet in place.

From my vast experience on my knees, installing floors, including carpet, and especially doing repairs and corrections, when you stretch the carpet up on the tackstrip pins, and then beat them dowm, the pins grab the face fibers(yarn) and pulls them down at every tack pin. It then looks like you nailed it down from the top, at every tack strip pin.

It also bends the pins over, and if the carpet has a decent stretch on it, the pull of the stretch, can and will rotate those bent pins, and then the pins are standing straight upwards instead of being at an angle to hold the carpet stretched. It then comes loose from the tackstrip pins.

I learned the duct tape trick from David Hunt, of The Vermont Rug Company, and reinforced by Mr. Walker of CFI.

Duck tape is good. flattening the pins is easier and it works just fine. Besides with shorter pins (made shorter by the duct tape), the carpet may not hold to the pins, depending on the backing of the carpet.
Woven backing is far different than the backings found on tufted carpet.

OK, lets clarify this...

Are you beating the pins down before you stretch, or after the stretch and the backing is hooked.


If the pins are sticking you in the foot, they are too long. Not because they aren't bent. Design and function.

after the installation,, as always has been..

Naw, the carpet nap is too short.

Back in my days, we had plenty of options. There were different strips and different pin lengths.. and easily found.
NOw, I'm not sure of the availability of different pin lengths.
But, nothing changes....... make due with what you have or is available.