3/3/2008
8:47:00 AM 

Take any single room and set 3 or 4 feet right in the middle of the room. Go to the opposing side--right in the middle and stretch hard for the same 3 or 4 feet. Then go to the center of one of the 90 degree walls and instead of just setting that wall, put a little more of a kick on it and stretch so as to straighten the bow created by the little harder set wall.

That leaves you with 4 equal quadrants, where you can take a stretch so that it ""feels"" the same and not by percentage.

You can also--if you are paying close attention, see the bow you can create and see it when you pull it out.

You will also notice that at the mid sections of each wall, the nails will lock down that potential to stretch, where the center of the areas not held by nails will stretch further, so the closer you come to each end wall, the less you will be stretching the carpet at those points.

Consider the origionally taught, Roberts method of installation, as you do the above type of oriented stretch.

You can tell how good you did, by how straight the rows run in the length, at least, if they were straight to begin with.

3/27/2008
6:27:49 PM 

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Was this your standard way for stretching, Jim?

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