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Had to choose between a power stretcher and a knee kicker on a big job last month
I was doing a whole house install in Tampa, about 1500 square feet of plush carpet. The main room was huge, maybe 30 feet long. My old knee kicker just wasn't getting it tight enough, so I had to decide to either rent a power stretcher or keep struggling. I rented one for $75 for the weekend and it made a world of difference, got a perfect stretch. Has anyone else had a job where switching tools was the only way to finish right?
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aaronsullivan21d ago
Honestly, that's the smart move. I once tried to force a job with just a hand stapler when my pneumatic gun died. Spent half a day and my wrist was killing me, and the work looked bad. Driving back to the shop to get the right tool felt like a waste of time, but finishing it wrong would have been worse. Sometimes you just have to admit the small tool won't cut it for the big space.
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jana_black21d ago
Been there with the wrong tool making everything take three times as long. What kind of job were you doing that needed the pneumatic stapler? Was it like securing insulation or something with a lot of thick material? I've messed up trim work trying to use a small nailer when I needed the bigger one, and the results were so bad I had to redo it all anyway.
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