tack strip AmE
gripper rod BrE
carpet strip

The carpet strip in the middle of the hall was well-worn and smudged with muddy heelmarks.

Very slowly she made her way along the carpet strip which ran the length of the hall until she reached the door of Ariel's room.

She tripped over a piece of loose carpet strip and had to shake a little tack from the sole of her shoe before she continued.

Bill the Butcher (No Ropes Barbed wire carpet strip house of pain death match)

Due the entrance foyer becoming slippery during power cuts Jon Sampson suggested that a carpet strip be laid out during these periods.

Relentless" Ron Mathis defeated GANGER (Carpet Strip Massacre) "

Initially introduced performing a lap dance on Zandig's wife, he later went on to defeat Ian Knoxx in a "Thumbtack & Carpet Strip" match in the opening rounds.

Panels can be cut or bent to meet inside or outside corners with a wood tack strip used to keep in place.

If he didnt stop to help, he would run over the tack strip lying across the road thirty feet ahead.

I started ripping up the underlay and tack strips under the carpet in the downstairs hallway.

He got down on his knees on the patio, reached across the threshold, and pulled up the carpet from the tack strip.

Tacking strips used for attaching soft pieces like fabric tops sometimes contained bent tacks.

You pull up the corner of your wall-to-wall carpet and notice that the wooden tack strips are wet and discolored.

I could see his carpet knife with its fat, curved blade, and the mallet he used to pound the carpet backing onto tack strips.

The gap between the tack strip and the baseboard allows clearance to tuck the edges of carpet down and hide any irregularities.

After the underlay is installed, the carpet is cut to fit, stretched over the area and firmly anchored to the edges of floor via the tack strips.

Convexco Limited (Convexco) of Pickering, Ontario, is the largest Canadian producer of metal tack strips for upholstery.

She dropped the tack strip and inched the bra wiring into the hole, pushing it so it poked back up through the knot hole and created a handle.

I made my way down the bare wooden staircase, trying not to snag the sleeping bag on the gripper tack strip that had been left behind when I'd ripped up the carpet.

For example, all millwork is constructed from formaldehyde-free medite, all finishes are solvent-free, low VOC products, carpet is laid with a tack strip method versus adhesives.

The introduction of tack strip, "tackless strip", "gripper strip", or "smoothedge", simplified the installation of wall-to-wall carpeting, increasing the neatness of the finish at the wall.

He put the gun in his belt, lowered his car to the ground, put the tire iron and the jack into the trunk, pulled up the tack strip, and climbed into the Corolla to drive back to Washington.

The strip has two functions: first, the tacks grip the carpet and permanently hold it in place and second, the carpet edge is jammed into the gap between the tack strip and the wall which gives it a finished look with little effort.