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I stopped stretching carpet along the long wall and my seams look way better now
Been installing for about 6 years now. Everyone always says to stretch width-wise and work down the length of the room. Last month I had this weird shaped room in a house over in Maplewood, maybe 12x18 with a weird bump out. I was fighting the seam on the long wall for like 20 minutes and it just looked wavy no matter what I did. Said screw it and stretched along the short wall instead, worked my way across. Seam laid flat as a pancake after that. Now I've done it on maybe 5 jobs since then and I swear it works better for rooms that aren't perfectly square. Anyone else ever try breaking the "rules" like that?
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lewis.troy29d ago
Man, I had almost the exact same thing happen to me about a year ago on this real narrow hallway in an old house, maybe 3 feet wide but like 25 feet long. Fought the seam on the long wall for what felt like forever and it looked terrible, wavy and puckered. So I just flipped my whole plan and stretched across the short way, same as you. That seam sat down like it was painted on the floor. Now I do it all the time on long skinny rooms or rooms with weird angles. Feels like we've all been told the "right way" for so long we forget to just look at what the room is actually asking for.
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