Originally Posted by
thimblebug6000
I also have carpet & use the plastic mat with the pokeys.... it's okay.... not great.... BUT.... I'm not willing to pull the carpet out as this room is "on paper" a 3rd bedroom should we ever decide to sell. Today I must have tripped over the edge of that plastic at least 3 times..... but I still think it's worth keeping the carpet for the warmth & for the resell value.
I always wear shoes in the house, and I'm sure its because my mom sewed, too. My son refused, and we had more than one problem with him finding a pin with his foot. As we say around here, "Gravity is not your friend." My ex is a carpeting contractor, and you could take the carpet out of that room, roll it up, and save it in the garage until you sell the house, and replace it. It will look newer than the other carpet, and you would have to be careful of the tack strips, which I doubt you would want to remove and replace. You can get a contractor (or maybe hubby) to put a transition strip in the doorway- that's the name for those little metal strips they put between carpet and another surface. When you replace it, you'll need a contractor to do it, because you'll need a seam in the doorway, and they will need to stretch it onto the tack strips so it looks nice and tight. The tape they use for seaming as about 4" wide and has hot glue stripes. They use a special tool called a seaming iron that slides along the seam and melts the glue. Moving at the right speed is crucial, as is using a tool box to weight it down behind the iron as you go along. This thread started 5 years ago- have you moved yet?