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2. Carpet stretcher - Wikipedia

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   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 carpet stretchers: "power stretchers" and "knee kickers ...

3. Tack strip - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. Fitted carpet - Wikipedia

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   The carpet fitter is stretching a carpet onto gripper strip using a manual stretcher tool. 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).

5. Flooring - Wikipedia

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   The quality of a carpet is usually measured in face weight, or how many fibers there are per square inch. The higher the face weight the more plush a carpet will feel. [3] Carpets come in a variety of materials including wool, nylon, olefin, and polyester. There are different types of carpet like twists, which is commonly referred to as berber.

6. Carpet beater - Wikipedia

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   A carpet beater "Household gymnastics". A carpet beater or carpetbeater (also referred to as a rug beater or rugbeater, carpet whip, rug whip, clothes-beater, dust beater or dustbeater, carpet duster, wicker slapper, rug duster, or pillow fluffer, and formerly also as a carpet cleaner or rug cleaner) is a housecleaning tool used to beat carpets in order to shake dust and dirt out of them. [1]

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