Carpet to laminate transition

[mikeF00]

Hi, i’m laying a laminate floor in my hall and putting a carpet on the stairs. I intend to just butt the laminate up to the vertical section(riser , I think it’s called) of the lowest step (as neatly as possible) , and when the carpet bloke puts in the carpet , the thickness of the carpet and underlay will cover any gap.
I guess the carpet bloke will staple the lowest section of the carpet to the riser?

Is this the best approach ? Is this what most people do?

 

[Ian H]

Staples or glue.

 

[noseall]

Is this the best approach ? Is this what most people do?

I ran the laminate under the stairs in the last one I did - a real b'stard as the stairs were fixed down with a bracket.

Just make sure your cuts are neat and snug with the stair riser etc.

 

[conny]

I did my hall in laminate a number of years ago. I nailed a carpet gripper across the bottom riser and then left a very small gap between the teeth of the gripper and edge of the laminate. Carpet fitter simply cut to size and stretched it down over the gripper. The thickness of the pile filled the gap with no edges showing.