Why is there so much wrinkled carpet in Utah? First all carpet these days must be Powered Stretched. The knee kicker is just a setting tool not an installation tool. A power stretcher is a tool with long poles and is set along a wall against a base board and ran across the room with a head and handle on the opposite end. Then its is cranked down getting 2-3 inches of carpet up the wall. It is cut to the wall and tucked (not crammed) to the wall. The tackless (called because in the old days carpet was tacked to the floor) which is is secured to the sub-floor and has pins at a 33 degree angle which holds the carpet in place. Between the the tackless and the baseboard is a space called a "gully" that the carpet is tucked to. The reason there is so much re-stretching going on is that in the state of Utah this is considered day labor and there is no required training on carpet installation. Why someone would spend $10,000.00 on carpet and then let their painter put it in or even worse try to do it themselves is beyond my comprehension.Another reason carpet back up or bubbles is it is cut to long and then crammed in the gully and has no where to go but back in the room causing wrinkles. I have made a very good living fixing these problems and it will usually happen within a year of installation. I get the question all the time "How long till I need to get them stretched again?" Like this is to be expected. Once I re-stretch your carpet it will not return why? because I've been trained to do it right. When my company installs new carpet we give a lifetime (carpet installation) guarantee. If it bubbles or wrinkles
(it never does unless you slide really heavy furniture on the carpet) we come back and fix it at no charge and that's just how it should be for every installation.
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