Talked with a commercial installer in Phoenix and it hit different

Ran into a guy named Rick at a supply house yesterday who told me he stopped using tack strips that don't have the arrow stamped on them. He said he had a callback where a whole room of carpet lifted because the installer put the strips in backwards. Made me wonder how many of us actually check for that arrow before we start laying things out? Let me know what you all think.

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lisas781d ago

That "arrow thing" actually bit a buddy of mine last year on a rental flip. He got the strips at a closeout sale and never checked, had to rip out a whole bedroom after the carpet buckled in the heat.

nancyramirez1d ago

Wait, hold up. "Closeout sale" and he never checked? That's wild to me. I mean, I get saving a buck, but those arrow strips are literally the one thing you can't cheap out on. Once they're down and the carpet's stretched, you're stuck with whatever you got. Your buddy must have been so pissed when that bedroom started rippling. I'd be sick if I had to rip out brand new carpet and start over just because I skimped on tack strips. That's a hard lesson to learn, man.

casey34218h ago

Learned that lesson the hard way myself. @nancyramirez is right, paying full price for good strips saves a whole lot of headache later on. Rather rip out a few bucks extra now than the whole floor.