All I can say is, it works. Whoever installed the lvp did a nice job but the transitions didn't look very nice, so these people asked me to do something, anything ....just make it look better.
Cortec has a lousy selection of transitions especially for situations like this. The T-mold instead of being flat is an arched shape which looks ugly especially when it's lvp to lvp. When fitting to carpet, the T-mold doesn't work because there's no way to attach it. Even if you could, the carpet side would make it wobble. The only metal that would work would be inch and a half flat bar.
This was an older stiff Berber with seam tape in the doorway. After making the two oak moldings and wrapping them, there was still not enough material to tuck in, using tack strip as would have been preferred. The carpet edge is resting on tack strip, but the carpet is butted against this molding, not tucked in. I sealed the edge quite well with latex, so this certainly isn't going anywhere.
It felt kind of weird doing it this way but it looks good and it's definitely not going to come loose or unravel.
Then there's the T-mold.
It would have been very difficult to do this job without a t-molding in this location. A kitchen and dining room had already been done years before and the living room was carpeted. There was a flood in the house on the carpet was replaced by adding on to the existing lvp.
There is another door opening at the far end of a dining room and making that come around and connect to this angle would have been dicey so they chose to put a factory Coretec T-molding in place.
I don't know why they don't make these t-moldings flat. They have an arch that sticks up, making them a tripping hazard. I found another manufacturers t-molding and wrapped it with the same material this homeowner has. This t-molding is snapped into a wide aluminum track. The cortec one I removed was glued was glued and tacked in with a brad nailer
It was loose and floppy like the other moldings. It looked like total crap with all the brad holes in it.
Because this was kind of a test and a learning experience for me I only charge them 350 bucks but she wrote me a check for $500.
That's actually closer to what it was worth. I love happy customers.