We recently had our upstairs bedrooms carpeted, and as you can see in the first picture below, the old wooden transition strips did not do a good job of covering the seams. We were concerned that over time, they would fray even worse. I was fortunate to buy new transition strips that were a bit wider, as shown in the second picture. But what you can't see is that the metal U-shaped channel the transition strip gets secured to was not tall enough to reach. I figured that I would just buy a taller channel, but I couldn't find any at Home Depot or Lowe's. I resolved the issue by buying a 1-inch-wide, 1/4-inch deep piece of wood from Greive Hardware, cutting it to the proper width, removing the channel, screwing the wood into the floor, screwing the channel on top, and pressing the transition strip into place. While it took ten times longer (at least) than I thought it would, the result was worth it.
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