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A brad nailer would have made it look nicer.
At least he could have stained the exposed ends.
Daris
Daris
Looks like a local guy who takes care of some rental properties. Most of his work looks like that.
Looks like he just stacked all his leftover cuts end to end.
I'm doing a rental right now. There were 9 pieces of pad in a 12' by 13' bedroom, 11 pieces of pad in a 9'6" by 13' bedroom and in one corner of the living room, about a 4' X 7' area including a 2'X3' closet I counted 13 pieces of pad....... one inch trips, 2 inch by 6 inch strips, and even a single 1 inch piece.
My guess was the installer was using every single scrap and trying to retain the rest of the pad he was sent with for his own use. There are 8 units. I'm betting he kept a full roll for himself.
I'm doing a rental right now. There were 9 pieces of pad in a 12' by 13' bedroom, 11 pieces of pad in a 9'6" by 13' bedroom and in one corner of the living room, about a 4' X 7' area including a 2'X3' closet I counted 13 pieces of pad....... one inch trips, 2 inch by 6 inch strips, and even a single 1 inch piece.
My guess was the installer was using every single scrap and trying to retain the rest of the pad he was sent with for his own use. There are 8 units. I'm betting he kept a full roll for himself.
Some stores at least here will under cut you on yardage of the pad by 10%. They say if you have any leftover pieces you better hang onto them for when you are short. I used up pieces to an extent and had leftovers to make into full rolls for me. But there were times I had to use carpet scraps to finish out a closet or a corner.
Daris
I just bring back to them what ever's left over.
Nick
In Remembrance
I always put the extra in the trash .
I had plenty like you Hi, What PEOD me was the million staples .
I had plenty like you Hi, What PEOD me was the million staples .
hmmm...Think I would have covered the stringer, if it was ok with the customer.
Nick
In Remembrance
I always do one step the way is should be done with just a few staples to show the customer the difference in the look.
Most basement stairways are like that. Have done hundreds of steps that way. Shaggy carpet like that should have been a breeze. A little trick I learned on them is to add the ear on later, and not try to do it all in one piece.
Daris
Daris
I think so too. The carpet on the riser where it contacts upper side of the stringer looks a bit uneven or over stapled. I bet if careful, a hot glue gun might have performed miracles. Might have taken a bit more time per step to achieve a little more consistency and perfection. Depending on the job and price, spending the extra time to achieve that perfection is not always possible nor expected.
If I could end that job at 2pm and have the rest of the day off, or loose my ass time wise and work till 5 or 6 to make it as perfect as possible. The day is toast if it ends at 2 pm or at 6 pm, so why not go the extra mile and spend the time to gain a customer for life and referrals from them?
The camera and harsh lighting angles probably make what I see look worse than it actually is. It's not a bad job. I just see what looks like pock marks from that stapler. I'm a whiny picky old geezer as you know.
store told the installer that the job needed a little subfloor work
I'd dug down a lot deeper than that............ not earthworm deep but if it's fixable, I'll do it. (not at the shops estimate) They don't usually see stuff that needs this much fixing anyhow. I find out how bad the repair is when I get there and start diggin'.
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That stringer is just wrong but I would have covered it too.
The place looks pretty 'rustic'. I'm betting the rest of the place has some unusual construction features. I'm thinking now that you mention it...... that stringer should have looked like an oversized skirt board instead of the step running over onto it.
Installer is getting crap after he posted this picture. He did only the carpet.
The installer only made $80 for the job. HO won't pay to do anything else. Some other installers are giving the guy grief because he did not ramp it. The difference is 5 inches. How in the hell would you ramp 5 inches and not make the carpet installation look like crap? If the installer even added a threshold, it would come out of his $80. IMHO, HO got what they paid for.
can you imagine 450 yards of this
