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Watched a guy try to stretch a 12-foot roll into a 15-foot room yesterday
He was working on a job site in Tempe, and I saw him trying to force the carpet to cover a gap that was way too big. He had maybe three inches of extra material total, but he needed a full three feet. I had to step in and explain that you can't stretch carpet more than about 1% of its length, or the backing just tears. We ended up having to seam in a new piece, which added two hours to the job. How do you guys handle it when the measurements from the sales team are just plain wrong?
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adam_thomas6mo ago
Yeah that 1% stretch limit is real... but what happens when the sales team's floor plan is just a rough sketch? Do you guys ever get them to come out and see the actual room before they write up the order, or is that a lost cause?
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thomas837mo ago
Man that's brutal lol. Reminds me of this time we had to install flooring in a weird shaped room with like five angles. The cut sheet just said "15x20" but it was more like a puzzle piece. We ended up wasting a ton of material doing it the fast way before we just measured it properly ourselves. Always gotta double check their numbers or you're stuck fixing it later.
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patricia_chen677mo ago
My buddy had to seam three separate pieces once because of a bad measurement (it was a total mess).
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