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Why does everyone stretch carpet while tacking? I stopped and my seams improved
I quit stretching my carpet tight on the tack strip after a job in Portland last month, left it a bit loose, and my seams laid flat for once so has anyone else tried easing off on the tension or am I fighting a losing battle?
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leep339d ago
Read a post from an old installer on a flooring forum a while back saying the same thing, that over stretching kills your seams because the backing is fighting the latex all the way. Made sense to me once I thought about it. Carpet needs to relax into the tack strip, not get strung out like a guitar string. Your Portland job sounds like proof of that. I would say keep doing what you are doing but just watch the loose spots and wrinkles over time, since there is a line between eased in and sloppy.
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