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brooke_nguyen65•14h ago

Found out most new carpet is made to last 8 to 10 years, not 20

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veraw47•18h ago

Old stretch job from 2003 still looked tight last month, new stuff barely makes a year

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brookep27•19h ago

Watched a helper cut carpet off the roll backwards at a job in Mesa and cost us 40 square yards

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the_derek•1d ago

Found out the average carpet job used to take twice as long, and I finally get why my back hurts

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kaib18•2d ago

Tack strip gaps, how tight is too tight? My neighbor's floor popped after 9 months

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morganhayes•4d ago

120 yards in one room changed my mind about patterned carpet

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oscarh16•5d ago

The day my seam iron died on a big hallway job in Cleveland

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avery629•6d ago

That time a tack strip caught me off guard in a rental in Tulsa

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saraho48•8d ago

Rant: The laser level hype finally got me in Knoxville

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finleyprice•9d ago

Tack strip anchor failure at a 3am patch job in Denver

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taraj11•13d ago

Hotel carpet tear-out in Phoenix made me change my blade game

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milap35•22d ago

Vent: Went to a model home in Phoenix, their carpet install made me cringe

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charles508•27d ago

Felt pads on stairs are a scam, here's my compromise from a condo job in Austin

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xena_jackson•1mo ago

The carpet pad thickness chart I found changed how I bid jobs

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sageburns•1mo ago

My helper swore by the seaming iron trick, I doubted it hard

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