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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kim69319d ago

Wait, you've been doing this SIX years and just now tried that?

amy_foster7919d ago

Why fix what's been working fine though...