PSA: power stretcher instead of knee kicker, 12 years too late
I did a 14x18 Berber in a rental in Boise yesterday and finished in 40 minutes using my power stretcher the whole way, no knee kicker except the stairs. For 12 years I kicked every room by hand because my old boss in Nampa told me stretchers were for lazy hacks and I never questioned it. My knees ache every morning and I popped a seam in a Tulsa apartment back in 2019 that cost me $350 to fix. Now I leave the kicker in the van unless it is a closet. How many of you still kick whole rooms, and did anyone else have a lead guy who swore against the stretcher?