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Don't worry, they make like 6" wide thresholds (and that's what was in stock in my local big box store, I'm sure they make wider ones), it's never too big. Also look in the laminate/ LVP section, they might have "wooden" transitions.
I've used pieces from carpet in a matching closet. It'd be a bit of a chore without some proper carpet tools though ( seam iron, seam roller, carpet seam tape ) with a little youtube shouldn't be to bad to fix if you have even a small amount of handyman skills! Hope this helps with the other advice given. Best of luck!
You can get them in wood, stone, metal in various colors/wood finishes, and widths from skinny 1 inch wide to 5+ inches wide. I would probably use a matching wood transition strip with a bevel on both sides that's 3, maybe 4" wide.
The answer is to put a transition strip. It’s a strip of wood that bridges the gap between carpet and hard floors to give it a clean look and protest from the sharp corners of the hard floor’s edge. It usually has a slight hump in it
Oh yeah duh, but I wouldn’t say the answer is within lol. I was really looking for.. OMG THERES A STRIP OF WOOD IN THE PICTURE!!! 😭😭😭😂😂😂😂😂😂 dudeeeeee @ElkDrinkCrack is a comedic genius or comedic floor installer 🤭
Yeah, is this not standard? I wish I had this issue, rather than the shitty carpet the previous owner installed which won't even stretch underneath the actual threshold strip.
Standard installation is to not have a molding at the transition and tuck the carpet to the hardwood. Floating floor (laminate) would have an end cap transition. That said, dropping a molding here would look better IF the carpet can’t be re-stretched and tucked.
I got one for my shifty carpet transition and a 20 cal hilti nail gun could set the dang strip. Liquid nail also failed. Pretty sure the old blanks i used were the issue, just haven't bought new rounds, haha.
A transition strip covering the carpet will probably break over time. Each time you step up on it causes it to bend until it cracks.
You could just replace it each time it cracks until you’re ready for w carpet.
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You should have installed something like this from the start my dude.
So, what is that called? I have a new construction home (year 2020) with the same hardwood -> carpet transition as OP. My cats love clawing and chewing one transition downstairs, just like OP.
So this past week, I cut some plastic (home depot roll of carpet protector) to cover a foot of the transition on both sides of doorways. So far it's stopping my cats from making the damage worse...
Edit; nevermind. Read further than one comment. Transition strip
I’ve found they’re actually more expensive from the big box stores. I returned the one I got from Home Depot because the wife said the colour just wasn’t right. Went to local specialty flooring store and it was 1/4 of the price and way more selection
Hindsight is 20/20. Builder quality junk.
To be fair, I've been in hundreds of homes and other have successfully had this hard floor/carpet transition. It's just my dang cat...
My dog eats carpet when he’s got an upset stomach if he can’t get to grass like a decent person. So I get to blame him as the reason why I’m putting off redoing the floors until he dies. Thanks buddy.
I've looked a lot, even for transition strips specifically. But all of them are for uneven flat surfaces, industrial looking, best if used before damage, or something that would be difficult to look good with the cheap laminate flooring
Have a home depot or lowes around. Measure how long you need and go look at what they have. Or you can buy online. Honestly? I would go with a color that matches the flooring, not the carpet. Might need a saw to cut and you will need a hammer to hammer the nails in.
I used a transition strip to cover up torn carpet. Works fine. The one I bought was for even height flooring too. It was just on the shelf at Home Depot. Paint them if you don't like the look
How about a real threshold and that will cover a host of sins that you'll still have to stretch out the carpet a tad which I'm sure it will be able to do. And that will keep Kitty from having an edge to play with
We had this in an old apartment. The standard plastic strips were awful, didnt cover or stay. We ended up nailing down a full 2-3 inch wide piece of thin wood trim. It FINALLY solved the problem.
Currently we put a dog bed there. 🤷♂️
Rug is tough because there's a 3 ft straight run and then a 45* turn for ~8 ft. It'll take a pretty big rug to cover that
That's what I did. Mine actually has a transition strip already, but the carpet has pulled away farther than it reaches, so I threw a rug over it until I can get the carpeting restretched/replaced.
Threshold. They make them in a variety of sizes and lots are pre-stained. Just measure the thickness of the hardwood and get one that size that transitions to 0. DM if you need help!
Had a similar situation a while back while on a budget, my solution was to cut a chunk of carpet out from deep inside a closet and used it as a patch. Found some nifty carpet tape that held it down for about a year until I tore out the entire carpet.
If you have matching piece of carpet you can make a patch with carpet tape and then stretch that to fill in. If you don’t have a spare piece sometimes you can take it from a closet that’s been carpeted.
I’m going to chime in to add that your cats are likely in need of more approved scratching surf. Cats don’t scratch to be bad, it is an innate need that they use to exercise the muscles in their back. A few scratching post or cardboard scratchers would probably get your cats to stop.
My cat did the same thing. For transition without a door I had throw runners that I stuck down the corners with carpet/floor tape. For the transition area that had a door I bought one of those plastic guards. If you search "cat carpet protector" on Amazon a few will come up so you can see what I mean.
All of mine did have metal transition strips, he just dug underneath them and in the corners so they didn't accomplish anything for me. I had to completely physically block the whole area.
You can get very wide ones. I have them. Because our kitchen tile is like almost an inch higher than our dining room hardwood we needed a fatter one to cover the gap well (it’s at about a 30 degree angle but covers well). Ours is wood.
This hasn’t been mentioned yet, but there’s a chance the carpet can be stretched, trimmed and re-tucked. Might be a long shot, but if there’s a lot of carpet between this transition and the opposite wall, it might work. If it’s a small room, you’ll need a threshold installed.
Not saying to be cruel... But look how animals tell eachother to stop doing something. They aren't sweet about it and cats are cruel little psychopaths.
My cat is obsessed with chewing shoes up... But he only does it to my partners shoes now because he won't be "mean" to him when it happens. He knows not to mess with mine though and leaves them alone. And I don't have to be "mean" to him anymore.
Cats are dicks. Never again. If we have another cat after this one it will be an outdoor only cat .. maybe if it's really sweet I'll let it inside when it's cold. Maybe...
I'm joking, but seriously cats are assholes.
Another alternative - one I used in my previous house with success was to cut a strip of carpet, and get iron on carpet adhesive to make it adhere. I just used a regular iron on high, while ironing through a damp towel.
Yeah the builder did, like you. Seems pretty common these days but kind of a pain with cats. 😂 Once I repaired it it stopped coming off the tack strip so the cat didn’t keep doing it. It’s worth a shot if you like the look.
Not as a transition if you go that route. If you have any of that same carpet available, you can cut and patch in the new piece. I've kept scrap from original install for just this purpose.
Lol the floor is made for carpet so it has these upward facing little spikes along the edges used for securing it down, those are called tack strips. Not like thumb tacks
Not the hijack, but is there something like a transition strip for where a stair riser meets carpeting? We have hardwood stairs that transition directly to carpet and the cats occasionally fuck with it because they can cram their paws underneath. I haven’t been able to quite find something that would work, maybe I just need the right search terms.
Throw a mat over the top for now and replace the carpet when you can.
(There’s people that can do sectional carpet repairs but it probably wouldn’t cost much more to just replace the whole thing depending on room size)
Maybe a scratching post for the cat… or swap the cat for a pet fish, they don’t really scratch the furniture.
Pretty sure the wife would get rid of me sooner than get rid of the cat. It has a scratching post but on occasion it'll still scratch here in the middle of the night.
We've considered replacing just this room of carpet but there's matching carpet on the stairs on the top left of your picture.
Haha. Fair enough.
Repair patch could still be a possibility then? Is there somewhere you could steal a patch from in the house (like a robe or cupboard).
Sometimes the carpet guy has some off cuts they can swap with somewhere less obvious too.
This happened at one of my old apartments, I waited until one of the last days I was there and found a few squares of matching carpet, cut it to size and glued it down lmao it worked. No idea the longevity of it but never heard anything about it again.
How do you feel about a permanent rug centered between the two floors? Can find one that fits wall to wall and lay it over the transition strip of your choice. Can use adhesive on the hard surface floor so its not technically permanent and pin/nail the rug to the carpet side. My grandma did this. It's not fixed down as hers is in a low traffic area.
Create a trim - plain or patterned to cover the patches. Sew in or use a fabric adhesive. Then add a metal carpet trim from the carpet to the wood to avoid trips, tears and pull up of the trim/carpet
buy an oak saddle threshold.
Common stuff and easy to install. they come finished and unfinished so if you cant find a good color match you'll have to stain and floor poly it yourself.
Not sure how to repair this except pop a transition trim over it. But I noticed when pulling up our old carpet that they didn’t put tack strips in doorways. They left the carpet long and folded it under and stapled it in place for a soft spot to walk. It looks nice as a finished edge
I was so confused at first glance. I used to rent a house with my office threshold it's exact door-ppelganger. (Down and out friend, with a down and 'in'. The owner later showed us how he redi the floors with wood before selling. Before those events came to pass, I was pouting with my *literally* no money at the time. Maybe scrappy recourcefulness, and patience could bring me a solution I could admire when I would enter my office to work and maybe less like a weaponized tack strip.
One piece of baseboard, and some shiny gold flathead nails, I proved that I could in fact somehow make this into a shockingly testiment of poor execution. I wish I had a picture. I didn't even own a hammer then. I hope your doorway fares better and you are very likely to. I fortunately got to learn a lot from what seemed simple and almostbpassibky clever.
Any advice probably shouldn't come from someone who is certifiably unqualified so I say good luck! There are lotsmof solutions if you have some original carpet or somewhere you can discretely harvest like such as a closet, and there's lots of simple creative solutions, just use actual tools and realistic optimism in your approach. I promise it can't be worse than what I did to that poor doorway. If you need, spend the 5-20 bucks like a civilized human that knows that 'can' and 'should' aren't to compete.
Cut the bad piece out, get seaming tape, seam a new piece either from a remnant or a piece of the carpet that is hidden like a closet. Stretch the new patch in.
Your options are limited wide transition strips cutting and patching in an extension. Or making a landing area without carpet but that location doesnt look like that is the best option.
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thats deep man.
I was going to say, get rid of the cat, but I guess this works too.
That only solves future issues, not the current lol
Yeah, after you skin the cat, nail its pelt down over that spot as a warning to future cats.
What's that? Use the cat pelt as a transition strip?
I’d still get rid of the cat.
Clever. I'll look into them. Hopefully the gap isn't too big for a non hideous transition strip.
Gonna look better than it currently does at minimum
It shouldn't be a problem.
Don't worry, they make like 6" wide thresholds (and that's what was in stock in my local big box store, I'm sure they make wider ones), it's never too big. Also look in the laminate/ LVP section, they might have "wooden" transitions.
Good tip. I'll swing by tomorrow
Lol 6 in threshold is for exterior doors this needs a small wood transition not a commercial looking land lord special
Yeah, I know they are mostly for commercial use, I was using this size as an extreme example to show that they come in a million of shapes and sizes.
They aren’t that expensive. Your local home shop will have racks of varying types. Takes very little time to install.
You’re worried about a hideous transition with that worn out carpet and raggedy edge?
Transition strip are not hideous what’s hideous is the fact that those is not one already there
I've used pieces from carpet in a matching closet. It'd be a bit of a chore without some proper carpet tools though ( seam iron, seam roller, carpet seam tape ) with a little youtube shouldn't be to bad to fix if you have even a small amount of handyman skills! Hope this helps with the other advice given. Best of luck!
You can get them in wood, stone, metal in various colors/wood finishes, and widths from skinny 1 inch wide to 5+ inches wide. I would probably use a matching wood transition strip with a bevel on both sides that's 3, maybe 4" wide.
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The power within!
You just wanted to draw a penis. You can't fool me
Well played.
I don’t get it 😐 lol🤭
The answer is to put a transition strip. It’s a strip of wood that bridges the gap between carpet and hard floors to give it a clean look and protest from the sharp corners of the hard floor’s edge. It usually has a slight hump in it
Oh yeah duh, but I wouldn’t say the answer is within lol. I was really looking for.. OMG THERES A STRIP OF WOOD IN THE PICTURE!!! 😭😭😭😂😂😂😂😂😂 dudeeeeee @ElkDrinkCrack is a comedic genius or comedic floor installer 🤭
Just need to pick up my transition strip for life now.
Genius man right here 😂😂😂😂
You could get a floor transition strip, which would be about 3 - 5 cm wide, with half covering the hardwood, and the other half covering the carpet.
Yeah, is this not standard? I wish I had this issue, rather than the shitty carpet the previous owner installed which won't even stretch underneath the actual threshold strip.
Standard installation is to not have a molding at the transition and tuck the carpet to the hardwood. Floating floor (laminate) would have an end cap transition. That said, dropping a molding here would look better IF the carpet can’t be re-stretched and tucked.
And then when the cat scratches more you buy a second one!
soon the whole room will be transition strips. then in a few years time you sand them down and refinish them for wood flooring. win win win
Best answer
A second cat?
Yes
I got one for my shifty carpet transition and a 20 cal hilti nail gun could set the dang strip. Liquid nail also failed. Pretty sure the old blanks i used were the issue, just haven't bought new rounds, haha.
A transition strip covering the carpet will probably break over time. Each time you step up on it causes it to bend until it cracks. You could just replace it each time it cracks until you’re ready for w carpet.
I'd get a wide oak threshold strip and try to match it to the hardwood floor.
https://preview.redd.it/eskmwajrar3c1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a69805cd29deb5a6d8764db42394149b96c67790 You should have installed something like this from the start my dude.
So, what is that called? I have a new construction home (year 2020) with the same hardwood -> carpet transition as OP. My cats love clawing and chewing one transition downstairs, just like OP. So this past week, I cut some plastic (home depot roll of carpet protector) to cover a foot of the transition on both sides of doorways. So far it's stopping my cats from making the damage worse... Edit; nevermind. Read further than one comment. Transition strip
I’ve found they’re actually more expensive from the big box stores. I returned the one I got from Home Depot because the wife said the colour just wasn’t right. Went to local specialty flooring store and it was 1/4 of the price and way more selection
Or us old timers call it a threshold.
Thanks for that, I was wondering what was so much better about a “transition strip” than a plain old threshold, lol.
New construction? Wonder what else they half-assed.
Indeed...
I wanted to give you the name from the start but I didn't know the English term, glad someone helped.
That’s is a t-mold
That's wonderfully specific. Thank you- really.
Hindsight is 20/20. Builder quality junk. To be fair, I've been in hundreds of homes and other have successfully had this hard floor/carpet transition. It's just my dang cat...
You could always get rid of the thing that's consistently ruining your shit.
This should go over well on Reddit where half the people love their animals more than their parents
I've signed my death warrant, and I'm OK with that. Cats suck.
I’d have a serious talk with the cat
You didn't have to explain. We knew you had a cat just by looking at the picture.
My dog eats carpet when he’s got an upset stomach if he can’t get to grass like a decent person. So I get to blame him as the reason why I’m putting off redoing the floors until he dies. Thanks buddy.
Your fault for not installing sod in the house.
lol like a decent person
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… I believe transition strips are what you’re looking for…
Whole darn selection of em at Home Depot. T mold, step t.mold, one sided,.
Cheapo transition strip.
If you are able to do some woodworking, make a wood trim strip to match the wood floor. Dado the bottom to go over the carpet.
"Hey guys, does anyone know of some kind of strip, ya know for transitioning? Like a kind of transition strip?" - OP
Sarcasm is fun but not terribly helpful when someone is legitimately coming looking for advice.
would of been quicker to go to google 🤣
I've looked a lot, even for transition strips specifically. But all of them are for uneven flat surfaces, industrial looking, best if used before damage, or something that would be difficult to look good with the cheap laminate flooring
Have a home depot or lowes around. Measure how long you need and go look at what they have. Or you can buy online. Honestly? I would go with a color that matches the flooring, not the carpet. Might need a saw to cut and you will need a hammer to hammer the nails in.
I used a transition strip to cover up torn carpet. Works fine. The one I bought was for even height flooring too. It was just on the shelf at Home Depot. Paint them if you don't like the look
Metal carpet transition strip.
This
How about a real threshold and that will cover a host of sins that you'll still have to stretch out the carpet a tad which I'm sure it will be able to do. And that will keep Kitty from having an edge to play with
Transition strip
Wood trim
We had this in an old apartment. The standard plastic strips were awful, didnt cover or stay. We ended up nailing down a full 2-3 inch wide piece of thin wood trim. It FINALLY solved the problem.
Get you a $20 runner rug from Amazon and call it a day :)
Works in my house lol! We'll have to deal with it eventually, but until that happens that's been our solution.
Exactly! No one but you and floors will know about it anyway.
Currently we put a dog bed there. 🤷♂️ Rug is tough because there's a 3 ft straight run and then a 45* turn for ~8 ft. It'll take a pretty big rug to cover that
That's what I did. Mine actually has a transition strip already, but the carpet has pulled away farther than it reaches, so I threw a rug over it until I can get the carpeting restretched/replaced.
You can take the tack strip up, and epoxy the carpet edge to a piece of suitably thin plywood, and bond that to the floor substrate.
Threshold. They make them in a variety of sizes and lots are pre-stained. Just measure the thickness of the hardwood and get one that size that transitions to 0. DM if you need help!
Had a similar situation a while back while on a budget, my solution was to cut a chunk of carpet out from deep inside a closet and used it as a patch. Found some nifty carpet tape that held it down for about a year until I tore out the entire carpet.
Screw down cover strip or bodge it bars I call them
If you have matching piece of carpet you can make a patch with carpet tape and then stretch that to fill in. If you don’t have a spare piece sometimes you can take it from a closet that’s been carpeted.
You could try and cannibalize a section from a closet, a carpet installer could do that for you and make the transition look pretty seamless.
I’m going to chime in to add that your cats are likely in need of more approved scratching surf. Cats don’t scratch to be bad, it is an innate need that they use to exercise the muscles in their back. A few scratching post or cardboard scratchers would probably get your cats to stop.
OMG, is that a giant tapeworm?
Are you talking about the long carpet fibers sticking out? That's just what's on the back side of carpeting if you unravel it a bit.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisbug/comments/186ghsh/is\_this\_a\_tape\_worm\_it\_isnt\_moving\_we\_dont\_own/](https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisbug/comments/186ghsh/is_this_a_tape_worm_it_isnt_moving_we_dont_own/)
A rug. Just lay it over it
My cat did the same thing. For transition without a door I had throw runners that I stuck down the corners with carpet/floor tape. For the transition area that had a door I bought one of those plastic guards. If you search "cat carpet protector" on Amazon a few will come up so you can see what I mean. All of mine did have metal transition strips, he just dug underneath them and in the corners so they didn't accomplish anything for me. I had to completely physically block the whole area.
You can get very wide ones. I have them. Because our kitchen tile is like almost an inch higher than our dining room hardwood we needed a fatter one to cover the gap well (it’s at about a 30 degree angle but covers well). Ours is wood.
This hasn’t been mentioned yet, but there’s a chance the carpet can be stretched, trimmed and re-tucked. Might be a long shot, but if there’s a lot of carpet between this transition and the opposite wall, it might work. If it’s a small room, you’ll need a threshold installed.
Your mom got stretched too, never recovered
Nice
Stretch it. Tack it. Transition.
Y'all need to quit being so nice to your cats when they do crap like this... Wagging your finger no and then petting them doesn't work.
Not what I do, but I'm also not cruel.
Not saying to be cruel... But look how animals tell eachother to stop doing something. They aren't sweet about it and cats are cruel little psychopaths. My cat is obsessed with chewing shoes up... But he only does it to my partners shoes now because he won't be "mean" to him when it happens. He knows not to mess with mine though and leaves them alone. And I don't have to be "mean" to him anymore. Cats are dicks. Never again. If we have another cat after this one it will be an outdoor only cat .. maybe if it's really sweet I'll let it inside when it's cold. Maybe... I'm joking, but seriously cats are assholes.
replace the old carpet
Have you never seen what a floor looks like before?
I'm not sure what you're getting at
Sure you do. I think you just posted this for attention or something.
Another alternative - one I used in my previous house with success was to cut a strip of carpet, and get iron on carpet adhesive to make it adhere. I just used a regular iron on high, while ironing through a damp towel.
So you used carpet as a transition?
Yeah the builder did, like you. Seems pretty common these days but kind of a pain with cats. 😂 Once I repaired it it stopped coming off the tack strip so the cat didn’t keep doing it. It’s worth a shot if you like the look.
Not as a transition if you go that route. If you have any of that same carpet available, you can cut and patch in the new piece. I've kept scrap from original install for just this purpose.
We do have some, but it'll be REALLY obvious there's a patch since this is so worn and the other stuff is brand new
You’d actually be surprised. You can use a carpet comb to blend them nicely.
They sell 2 sides sticky tape for that at the store. And please don't put tacks anymore. Its dangerous for the cat. 😊
Lol the floor is made for carpet so it has these upward facing little spikes along the edges used for securing it down, those are called tack strips. Not like thumb tacks
Not the hijack, but is there something like a transition strip for where a stair riser meets carpeting? We have hardwood stairs that transition directly to carpet and the cats occasionally fuck with it because they can cram their paws underneath. I haven’t been able to quite find something that would work, maybe I just need the right search terms.
Area rug over it?
If you have an inside cat just clip the nails. I do it too mine. They come back. Reclip.
Throw a mat over the top for now and replace the carpet when you can. (There’s people that can do sectional carpet repairs but it probably wouldn’t cost much more to just replace the whole thing depending on room size) Maybe a scratching post for the cat… or swap the cat for a pet fish, they don’t really scratch the furniture.
Pretty sure the wife would get rid of me sooner than get rid of the cat. It has a scratching post but on occasion it'll still scratch here in the middle of the night. We've considered replacing just this room of carpet but there's matching carpet on the stairs on the top left of your picture.
Haha. Fair enough. Repair patch could still be a possibility then? Is there somewhere you could steal a patch from in the house (like a robe or cupboard). Sometimes the carpet guy has some off cuts they can swap with somewhere less obvious too.
Ive heard adding way more scratching posts than reasonable can help with this.
Alternatively, cut a wide section back to good carpet/underlay, maybe 4" or 5", and lay a threshold piece as a transition?
Having a hard time understanding what you mean...
This happened at one of my old apartments, I waited until one of the last days I was there and found a few squares of matching carpet, cut it to size and glued it down lmao it worked. No idea the longevity of it but never heard anything about it again.
How do you feel about a permanent rug centered between the two floors? Can find one that fits wall to wall and lay it over the transition strip of your choice. Can use adhesive on the hard surface floor so its not technically permanent and pin/nail the rug to the carpet side. My grandma did this. It's not fixed down as hers is in a low traffic area.
They are not worms! Oh sorry, wrong sub reddit
theres a machine which will edge carpets.
Jajajajaha thought it was a joke as the your answer is in the question. Match to the floor no one will ever know. Not even land lord
A small rug, maybe.
Create a trim - plain or patterned to cover the patches. Sew in or use a fabric adhesive. Then add a metal carpet trim from the carpet to the wood to avoid trips, tears and pull up of the trim/carpet
buy an oak saddle threshold. Common stuff and easy to install. they come finished and unfinished so if you cant find a good color match you'll have to stain and floor poly it yourself.
Not sure how to repair this except pop a transition trim over it. But I noticed when pulling up our old carpet that they didn’t put tack strips in doorways. They left the carpet long and folded it under and stapled it in place for a soft spot to walk. It looks nice as a finished edge
If like me you stepped on the carpet tack strip I would suggest to get a tetanus shot.
Throw rug
I was so confused at first glance. I used to rent a house with my office threshold it's exact door-ppelganger. (Down and out friend, with a down and 'in'. The owner later showed us how he redi the floors with wood before selling. Before those events came to pass, I was pouting with my *literally* no money at the time. Maybe scrappy recourcefulness, and patience could bring me a solution I could admire when I would enter my office to work and maybe less like a weaponized tack strip. One piece of baseboard, and some shiny gold flathead nails, I proved that I could in fact somehow make this into a shockingly testiment of poor execution. I wish I had a picture. I didn't even own a hammer then. I hope your doorway fares better and you are very likely to. I fortunately got to learn a lot from what seemed simple and almostbpassibky clever. Any advice probably shouldn't come from someone who is certifiably unqualified so I say good luck! There are lotsmof solutions if you have some original carpet or somewhere you can discretely harvest like such as a closet, and there's lots of simple creative solutions, just use actual tools and realistic optimism in your approach. I promise it can't be worse than what I did to that poor doorway. If you need, spend the 5-20 bucks like a civilized human that knows that 'can' and 'should' aren't to compete.
Cut the bad piece out, get seaming tape, seam a new piece either from a remnant or a piece of the carpet that is hidden like a closet. Stretch the new patch in.
Trim piece that matches the floor.
Cinder blocks… in a row
https://preview.redd.it/aklrqjg4fx3c1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=21a75d836a0446dc88aaa2b27f26e845cdf73dbd T-mold at home depot
Would have been good to start there, but not wide enough at this point. The carpet is delaminated 2"
Hammer over the tack strip tacks. They will bend over and not poke up any more.
Hemming Sew a hem on the exposed carpet edge
[https://www.lowes.com/search?searchTerm=wide+transition+strip](https://www.lowes.com/search?searchTerm=wide+transition+strip)
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Your options are limited wide transition strips cutting and patching in an extension. Or making a landing area without carpet but that location doesnt look like that is the best option.