I thought it might be fun to share some flooring stories. I have gone behind a local installer for 27 years. One of those guys who has "done it that way for 40 years" I will share some about him occasionally. I figure all of you have some stories.
At least he did it in the middle of the floor. We had an installer climb into the customers bed. Got caught by customer. Try and explain that one.he laid down in the floor in the middle of the afternoon and took a nap.
I wrapped a spiral staircase in 5 days. $1500 Hey, I did 12 steps. Actually there were 24 in all. Stairs were notch into a white cedar tree trunk so all stairs were a different shape. Customer decided not to do the upper 12 stairs and I'm glad. This is the heaviest Berber I've ever installed. I think it came 15 feet wide.Turtle does not own a carpet trimmer and has never used one. He has no electric tacker. If he needs to put in a staple in anything, he hauls in an air compressor and uses an air stapler. He has never row cut a piece of carpet. He uses a piece of flat metal for a straight edge. He took three days to wrap a spiral staircase with about ten steps. I went out a week later and tore it off and did it right in 1/2 day.
This was one of those manufactured sets with a wood tread to fasten the carpet on. It had wood showing in places when he got done.I wrapped a spiral staircase in 5 days. $1500 Hey, I did 12 steps. Actually there were 24 in all. Stairs were notch into a white cedar tree trunk so all stairs were a different shape. Customer decided not to do the upper 12 stairs and I'm glad. This is the heaviest Berber I've ever installed. I think it came 15 feet wide.
Every step was patterned and once cut out, no further cutting was done when installing. The wall and trunk edges were sealed. My brother and I installed 2 sets of stairs like this about 25+ years ago, they were Berber too.. If each of us got 3 stairs completed per day we were doing really well.
I worked for one store where I did pattern match berber every day for a year. He said I was the only one who got it matched.I kind of did one like yours Hi but mine were actual logs with the bark still on them. Could only cover the tread so we turned the edge to follow the contour of the log where they cut it flat.. I was always asked how I got those fun jobs. But you know the answer to that.
Never done bark, but that would be cool. (too see, not do ) The same contractor has done 6 sets of white cedar tree stairways. My brother and I did two, and I've done two since then. We call em Barney stairs. I should have taken a photo looking straight up all 24 of them. I think this one took a 15 by 24 piece of carpet to keep the risers oriented the same.I kind of did one like yours Hi but mine were actual logs with the bark still on them. Could only cover the tread so we turned the edge to follow the contour of the log where they cut it flat.. I was always asked how I got those fun jobs. But you know the answer to that.
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