A tiled kitchen bathroom or hallway may meet up with a bedroom or living room that is.
Tiling up to carpet.
It s much easier to sweep carpet crumbs off tile than it is to clean mortar out of the pile of a carpet.
Whether you are working with an expanded room or just transitioning from one room to another there are times when two different flooring materials will butt up.
First i can install the tile on a straight line that is easy to bring the carpet up to.
How to go from carpet to tile.
No of course not.
How to transition from tile to carpet.
Just install the tile and then cut the carpet where the tile section ends right.
That s a surefire way to end up with a transition that looks lazy and clumsy.
And because setting tile can be a messy job with mortar water and grout tiling first keeps the mess away from the carpet.