[Dave]

Last year, I laid laminate floor across the dining room and kitchen
floors. At the time it was my intention to manufacture, from hard wood,
some new threshold strips to join up the laminate to 2 carpets. However,
due to ill health and the cold winter, I have not got a round tuit any
more, so the wife wants something done about it.

What I propose to do is use laminate to laminate metal strips, but I
have a problem with the kitchen to hall joint. When the hall carpet was
laid, there was a gripper strip at the threshold adjacent the original
wooden threshold strip. In putting down the laminate, I have lost the
use of both the threshold strip of wood and the gripper strip. What I
propose to do is use some industrial strength adhesive (solvent type) to
glue the carpet to the asphalt floor, but I need to stretch the carpet
while it goes off by using two long strips of wood to push against the
front door frame and a gripper strip attached to a wider piece of wood
to keep up the tension, by causing the 2 strips to bow and weighting
them down at the middle. I hope you understand all that :-)

Can anyone see a problem?

Dave