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Advertisement for a carpet stretcher, dated 1894 [1] A carpet stretcher is a specialized tool used to install wall-to-wall carpet. The tool grips the carpet with a set of tines on the head. A force applied to the tool then tensions the carpet and pulls it closer to the wall, where it can be fixed to a tack strip. There are two main types of ...
Fitted carpet, also wall-to-wall carpet, is a carpet intended to cover a floor entirely. Carpet over 4 meters in length is usually installed with the use of a power-stretcher (tubed or tubeless). Fitted carpets were originally woven to the dimensions of the specific area they were covering. They were later made in smaller strips, around the ...
Tack strip being removed from a floor. Tack strip also known as gripper rod, carpet gripper, Smoothedge tackless strip, gripper strip or gripper edge is a thin piece of wood, between 1 and 2 metres (3.3 and 6.6 ft) long and about 3 centimetres (1.2 in) wide, studded with hundreds of sharp nails or tacks used in the installation of carpet.
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7. Repurpose glass jars. Glass jars from honey, jam, salsa or other condiments can be washed and reused as food containers. Clean the jars really well, and then soak them in hot water to remove ...
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The meaning of the term carpet shifted in the 15th century to refer to floor coverings. [5] The terms carpet and rug are often used interchangeably. A carpet is sometimes defined as stretching from wall to wall. [6] Another definition treats rugs as of lower quality or of smaller size, with carpets quite often having finished ends.
A motley crew of evacuees fled from a California wildfire last week. There were amputees and orphans. One was brittle-boned and mostly blind; another was missing a spleen.