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Changed my mind about kickers after one blew out on a staircase in Tulsa
I always said kickers were a waste and stapled carpet straight to the tack strip like my old boss in Tulsa taught me. Then a week ago I was finishing a stair runner on a flip house off 11th Street and the bottom step came loose two days later, customer called me back and I had to eat the trip. Pulled it apart and the strip had cracked right where the carpet wrapped over it, no kicker holding anything down. Now I keep one in the truck and use it on every step and every doorway, takes maybe 20 extra seconds. Anybody got a trick for keeping the kicker teeth from chewing up the pad on really tight landings?
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adam_lewis1d ago
Kickers are cheap, callbacks are not.
Try flipping the kicker over and using the smooth side as a backer on tight landings, saved my pad more than once.
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