lay carpet or laminate flooring first?

[hovrens]

Just getting to the flooring part of my house remodel. I bought 1000 sq ft of glueless laminate flooring (Pergo immitation) to do most of the house minus the bedrooms. The bedrooms are going to be carpet. I am not going to attempt the carpet myself but I am going to do the glueless laminate myself.

My question is do I get the carpet installed first and then put in my flooring, or do I do my flooring first then have the carpet installed?

Thanks

[Sweep]

carpet last

[handyman923]

We did the same thing on our house... laminate in most of house, carpet in the bedrooms. We installed the laminate first with a transition strip at each bedroom doorway. The carpet installers then rolled the carpet up next to the transition strips. Looks good.

[VALENT]

shoot, I didnt even spring for the transition strips. The carpet layers made it look perfect.

[hovrens]

what is a transition strip?

[handyman923]

The transition strip we used was a strip of wood that was pre-stained to match the laminate. It transitioned from one level of flooring to another (laminate to carpet). They usually sell these with the laminate.

[vinman]

how would i install the transition strip between laminate flooring and carpeting that's installed over a cement slab? :?

[VALENT]

either drill and screw with anchors or just glue it down

[vinman]

thanks Valent