Tried carpet stretching without a power stretcher on a tight hallway

I had this 3 foot wide hallway in a house over in Oak Park and thought I could save time by just using a knee kicker. The carpet looked fine for about two days, then I started seeing ripples near the doorways. Had to go back and redo the whole thing with a power stretcher. Anyone else find that knee kickers just don't cut it for narrow spaces?

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michael_coleman1024d ago

Ha, isnt that just how it goes? You try to cut a corner and it ends up biting you twice as hard. Feels like half the stuff we do is just learning the hard way that shortcuts almost never pay off.

king.robin21d ago

Yeah I used to think you could always just muscle through stuff like that... but after enough times of it backfiring I gotta admit you're right.

nancy81724d ago

Laughing because I did the exact same thing in a rental once, thought I was being clever. The knee kicker just doesn't have the muscle for a tight hallway, it's like trying to stretch a t-shirt with one hand. Ended up renting the power stretcher for a day and felt like a proper idiot for not doing it first.