Cutting Aluminum Carpet Trim

If you only have a few pieces of aluminum trim to cut you can cut through the trim with an inexpensive handsaw.

Cutting aluminum carpet trim.

All types of aluminum trim are readily cut with standard saws although certain types of power saws will require carbide blades. Cut metal with your circular saw. They transition between two different flooring materials such as carpet to hardwood. Transition strips come in various sizes and materials with one of those materials being metal.

You can cut mild steel up to about 3 8 in. Unlike cutting other types of metal use a saw blade that. Thick using a ferrous metal cutting blade. 4 sand the edges of the transition strip to remove any sharp edges or burrs.

This d i y video use a schluter metal trim shows how to cut aluminum trim for an outside corner or how to cut trim 45 degree to install as a threshold on th. Cut the aluminum transition bar to fit across the length of the doorway with a hacksaw. Cut the transition strip using a hacksaw or a multipurpose tool equipped with a hardwood sheet metal cutting accessory. Use the straightedge as a guide.

Transition strips are used between rooms on the interior of a house. In our test it cut through rebar like a hot knife through butter.