I began a carpet restoration today.
It was flawed from day one which was about 2 months ago. I get to be Mr fix It. I need to have a t-shirt made, "I can fix that"
....... I'm sure that one's trademarked already
Anyway, what do you do when a job is completed and the customer comes in two days later nearly crying and tells you how horrible the job looks?
She's told whatever is wrong will be fixed.
A couple weeks later she comes in with a baggie containing four razor blades and a bunch of pieces of padding with staples sticking out of them. The razor blades were found by the lady's grandson and were laying on the floor in a large closet.
The clumps of padding with staples embedded in them came from the gravel in the driveway.
This was an entire upstairs of the home and they didn't vacuum so there was carpet fuzzies in the air as they worked on all the way down the stairs which had not been done yet and all the way out to the driveway.
Anyway I've got a few days ahead of me we're doing the entire job with the same carpet. Not replacing the carpet just fixing the carpet issues.
Day one, this seam sucks.
.....well it sucked but it doesn't now.
Before I left this afternoon I also took apart the doorway seam from this area above the stairs leading into a master bedroom.
I'm thinking the same installer that did the carpet seem did the padding seam. Why is it such a big thing to put a saddle seam in doorways? Is it that much faster?
Do you really save that much padding?
Anyway it's the whole upstairs of a house and I got my feet wet today. I think I can polish this turd.
If you look at the image with the blue tape, then look at the image where I'd remove the tape, that's the same seam. That's actually how wide the gap was.
On the bright side, seemed disassembly is easy because he did use the cool glide and I was totally blown away.
The seams were also thermally sealed which also blew me away. No one in the universe seals seams..... OK, 10 people and I haven't met the rest yet
That said, he applied way too much Thermo seemed sealer which added to the problems.
Luckily, I was able to trim 1/8 of an inch off of each side of the seam with my scissors and put it back together.
I'd show you how well it turned out but then..... you know how the saying goes, then I'd have to kill you.
Anyway have been dreading this large upstairs repair which involves restretching and trimming every single wall including the five large closets.
But I saw today told me that this is possible so my worrying is all about nothing. From hear on out, it will be just going through the motions.