Running Cable TV wire under Carpet?

Question

I'm looking to run Cable TV wire from one bedroom to another under the carpet. I was told that normally there is a small space between the wall and wood tack strip that your carpet attaches to. I plan on running the wire along this small space and once a reach the bedroom wall, I plan on making a hole in the wall big enough to fish the wire through.
My question is: If I pull up the carpet to accomplish this task will the carpet attach back to the wood tack strip? If not, is there some sort of carpet glue that I should buy to glue the carpet back down?
Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

The wooden tack strip are far enough away from the wall that when you raise that small part of carpet to hide the cable between the baseboard and tack strip you wont disturb the carpet. And if you do it attaches easy .

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Answer 3

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Running Cable TV wire under Carpet?
I'm looking to run Cable TV wire from one bedroom to another under the carpet. I was told that normally there is a small space between the wall and wood tack strip that your carpet attaches to. I plan on running the wire along this small space and once a reach the bedroom wall, I plan on making...

Answer 4

The tack strip is a thin piece of wood with a bunch of nail points sticking out of it. If you pull up the carpet, you can put it back as well as long as you don't damage the tack strip. If you damage it, you need to replace it (don't worry too much - they're cheap). But the only way you'll get the carpet to look right again is to use a carpet kicker-this is what installers used to lay your carpet initially.

You can rent carpet kickers from Home Depot.

Answer 5

Hey, is that cable LEGAL?!!! Like I care?!!! But if I understand one answer here I believe what they're telling you is that you do NOT need to pull any carpet up, nor pull basboard off because if you just run the coaxial cable close enough and push it down right along that wall, hey, no worries, mate!! You can't see it and less hassle all the way around!! There's usually just that space enough so as to enable one to do that. Try it first!!!

Good Luck!!

Answer 6

DONT REMOVE THE CARPET.

Just use a wonderbar and take off the base trim. (score the caulk at the top of the base trim first) There should be a void under the base trim where you can run the cable wire. (Usually drywall is kept 1/2" off the floor) Just stuff it down in the void between the drywall and the floor and replace the base trim.

You need a pneumatic brad nailer with some finish nails, and a tube of white paintable latex caulk. Re-caulk the top of the base trim and the nail depressions.

You're going to have to take the base trim off anyway.

Answer 7

Get a carpet kicker, that is what we do, when we change the living room around. The cable wire and the four speaker wires to the stereo. Hoped this helps.

Answer 8

Done it many of times make sure the tack strips dont penatrate the wire it will cause a crappy picture once you run the cable use a putty knife to jam the carpet back to the wall

Answer 9

Don't make more work for yourself. Just lay the cable along the wall and push it under the baseboard with a flat screwdriver. It will slide right in and presto, you're watching TV in no time. Good luck.

Answer 10

it should. the strip is essentially a row of metal 'teeth" that grab and hold the carpet.

just make sure you have a carpet kicker, because without one, its hard to get the carpet back on the strip. you need to kick the carpet towards the wall with the tool, this way the tension will hold the carpet taught and flat on floor.

but no, you should not need glue to put the carpet back, unless they used a glue in the first place.