Carpet Re Stretching Tool

Take the strain off your knees and back with this adjustable carpet stretcher.

Carpet re stretching tool.

If you have tight areas where the power carpet stretcher won t fit spaces less than 3 ft. Lengthen the adjustment rod of the power stretcher until its head is about 6 inches 15 2 cm from the carpet s un anchored edge. Press down on the lever of the power stretcher to smooth out the carpet wrinkles. If the lever requires too much pressure to push down you re stretching the carpet too tight.

From adjoining walls you ll also need to rent a knee kicker if a carpet cutter is available rent it too photo. It does the lion s share of the carpet stretching. We paid over 200 more for the reinstall of the carpeting because in calling are sea we were repeatedly told that it wasn t possible for carpet to stretch. In extreme cases it may be better for us to use a carpet power stretcher in order to get a good result.

The most important tool to rent is a power carpet stretcher photo 8. Carpet stretching is a common type of carpet repair that essentially involves pulling the carpet up from around one or more edges of the room re stretching it to proper tightness cutting the carpet to the proper length tacking back down into place and finally tucking it in along the edge. Usually this will involve us pulling the carpet up around the edges carrying out the carpet stretching by using a knee kicker carpet stretcher then re fitting the carpet and trimming off the surplus carpet.