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Sounds about right. There is a severe lack of good well-trained installers. Contract work doesn't allow for taking the time to train apprentices.

It's everywhere. I believe that's a large part of why flooring has evolved into many click / floating products. You can easily train someone who has good at basic skills or guide DIY'ers to install their own.

Retired from installing decades ago. Spent most of career in estimating / project management end of business. Not sure why I kept tools so long. Guess I wanted to keep a connection to it. :-) Having gone through apprenticeship and installing on my own for a while sure helped in estimating. Very...

If there was a flooring museum in BC, I would be interested in getting it to them. It would still work for someone, but hate to see it get ruined. Going to put the rest of my tools together and find a young person here in Okanagan, who could use them in their new trade.

Interesting to look at these 1880's patents. Amazing how little the tools have changed. :-)

Thanks for trying Daris.

I did a search on Google Patent Search. Looks like these two patents were not filed by Roberts. US1766423A - Carpet stretcher - Google Patents by Justin D Bartlow US2108506A - Carpet stretcher - Google Patents by Jesse C Owens

It's a heavy beast to carry around. :-)

Found the number.

Thanks Daris. Will have a look.

I bought this Roberts Junior Stretcher in the late 1970's, when a young apprentice. Sent photo to Roberts recently and they kindly let me know is from the 1950's - 1960's. Wondering if anyone can give me more info on it. Hasn't been used in decades, but time to clear out the tools. Was thinking...