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I finally fixed my seam peeking problem after a guy yelled at me
This old timer at a job in Phoenix told me I was stretching the carpet wrong after he saw my seams lifting on the third day. He made me cut out a 12 inch strip and redo it with a power stretcher instead of just a knee kicker. Has anyone else had a customer or another installer call them out on a mistake that actually made them better?
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cooper.drew12d ago
That old timer really did you a solid, didn't he?
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price.ray12d ago
Cooper.drew might have been on to something, but honestly, that old timer was probably just set in his ways. Knee kickers work fine on a lot of jobs if you know what you're doing. I've seen guys use power stretchers and still get seams that pop up because they're not paying attention to the subfloor or the pad. Sometimes a little extra glue or double-sided tape does the trick without ripping out 12 inches of carpet.
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Oh man, my buddy tried the glue trick on a high-traffic hallway and it held up better than the original install!
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