Recent content by highup

I just draw the picturegrams. Someone else sells it, someone else installs it. I toss in my two cents. ....I should probably toss in my $15 bucks so what I draw turns out the way that intended it to look. Sadly, faster and easier installation overrides best method. 🙄

One other thing about tucking, ESPECIALLY so if you make the gully tight. Don't use a stair tool to tuck. Use a stiff 4" or 6" drywall spreader. It's skinny, a stair tool is not.

Leave the shim away from the tile too...... That's additional room to tuck more carpet. I have routinely added 1/8" shims when tucking carpet against hole or wood. I mainly do it so that I can tuck more carpet. Butting the shim to the tile totally defeats the use of the shim.

This material is 9" by 5' long. There are 8 pieces per carton. If we need an extra row because it misses consuming a full plank ...by "this much"..... well, I don't want to risk it. ..... I had him add two extra cartons above the percentage that he normally adds. 8 pieces per carton x5 feet...

I live on the coast and north or south, every town is 23 to 27 miles apart. I find myself going north 25 miles more that I used to and often 25 miles south. Today was just over 50. Installers here have that sort of a limit. 50 miles north of south.

I didn't sketch what he did, I just scribbled what he told me so I have no idea what it looks like. I'm guessing willy nilly. I would have don't get rows in the kitchen, the done a few rows in the hall to try and make good use of material. ........no, actually I would have given the material...

A little scenery today. I'm 55 miles south of home doing a measure. Not overly windy so that's even better.

Yup, it's going the long way, right/left. Customer says so. 😁 Me too. 👍

I think he didn't want to put in transition strips in the hall opening or openings. I would have played it out lengthwise too. It was probably "easier" the just start on the living room wall at the beginning of the sketch and start plopping down planks. I care about the look and the customer...

Here's the big one I measured Friday. I just did some calculations. Measuring to 3 important areas, to the front door, to the top of the stairs, and the full width of the house..... All three measurements are borderline of being an exact number of planks. That may or may not be an issue. If you...

Here's a not to scale quickie sketch of part or the place. Looking to the right side, you see the hallway. From the dining room, you can step into the hall, walk it's length, then step left into the laundry at the far end. The dining room, kitchen and laundry is just 10 feet wide, maybe 10' 1"...

The layout had a 19 foot hallway, 3 feet wide. The plank layout ended up going the short direction. The installer said he did the hallway like this. I'm not sure why. Well, maybe I do.. It was a messy layout. ....again, these were 9 inch wide planks, so every scrap piece is 23% more than a 7"...

I use graph paper and if a wall length is 26' 4 3/16", then that's exactly what I write down. I can add or round up later. My drawings are like an architect drawing. More messy with all my numbers, and I draw in all the walls...... with that, if the customer decides on new base, I have the...

Two jobs, one my measure, the second, was the shop owner.....ran a little short. Same product. Mine was about 1200sq feet. The product measures 5 feet by 9" wide. Is waste because of the width our issue? They add 8% to my measurements. I've always measured the same way.

The customer has a Bauer unit and spent 3+ hours with it. Did good, but it was slow. It still needs another 1/8 or more removed in the kitchen area. There's still some across the living room, the master bedroom and hall. He had two differently designed wheels, neither cut very fast. Partly...