Thank God for lasers

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Now, if we can just find an installer.
Here's the layout. I set the laser line exactly 10 feet out from the walls in the bedroom and angled loft. That made it easy to accurately draw the dressing room offset on the right.it was 7' 7/8" from the laser line .
Does it need to be? Probably not.
It might help later when chopping that room into manageable size shape.
Those bedroom and dressing room areas are under 12 feet wide.

Ok, the angled loft is where the measuring could have gotten tricky without the laser.
Here's the entire layout...... Green laser, green pencil. Amazing technology these days.

 

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Enter laser, math and geometry.
I recentered the laser in the loft, once more at the 10' mark, parallel to the wall. The other axis is centered where the angle ends at the brick.
Drawing this outi With the 3', the 15' 11" and the 18' 9" , plus that little 3 1/2" measurement on the far left it almost perfectly hit the location where the laser touched the angle at "c" the 8' 10" mark. It's between 44 and 45 degrees.
This is accurate enough that the loft shape could be laid out on the shop floor and cut a couple of inches oversized, making the most use from the cut off piece.
I love that laser!

 

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Now the hard part.....
... who's going to install it? It will be a Nightmare.
Its difficult enough to stretch at angles...... but those balusters
35 of them
Not an issue with 1970's shag, but you know that isn't going to happen in this house.

 

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Stairs? You asked about the stairs?
Not a full wrap, so that's a good thing.

 

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...almost forgot the laser showing how the angle ended at the bricks, giving me what I needed. It's so nice being able to measure in the air, standing upright instead of of a string on the floor.

 

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How does one begin the stretching sequence with a 45 degree angle and stretching to those 34 balusters?
....or stretch too, then away from them?
I mean, if this ever needed a restretch....... Oh FREEKING dear.

 

[C.J.]

I mean, if this ever needed a restretch....... Oh FREEKING dear.

Looks like a job for a stinger

 

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Looks like a job for a stinger

 

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I can do a lot with properly placed and angled 4x4s.
It's just that carpet likes being stretched in length and width. She's planning another looped pile, so stretching at an angle gets problematic. Stretching away from it doesn't, but you still have to stretch it in length.
I'm thinking butt loads of stay nails (drywall nails)

 

[C.J.]

142 nail holes or 28 stinger holes.

 

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Definately nail holes. I did a patterned loop pile in a home 6 or 8 years ago.
One inch pattern. Room was... 23'6 by 35? It was over felt pad and had a 3x4 stove hearth mid way down.
The rows had to stay stay straight and the pad fought me. I put at least 3 double rows of stay nails (sheetrock nails), all the way across the room.....spaced about 5 inches apart as I remember. I wished I had a laser back then.
This gave me an incremental stretch, keeping the rows straight, especially along the wood stove.
At the bottom left there was a dining room which also had this carpet, so I couldn't really stretch in opposite directions.
Stay nails just need to be placed carefully so you don't damage the loops.
I hate stingers as much as I do brussel sprouts.
.....re-recalling. I might have done this stay nails procedure two times.
Once to start the carpet moving down to the other end, then a second, good stretch, being sure the rows were straight and parallel.
I think I set up and changed my tube sections and locations 20 bazillion times.