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When stretching or re-stretching carpet, a knee kicker is used as an assist tool in conjunction with what
other tool? ✔✔Power stretcher
What should a knee kicker's pins penetrate ✔✔the carpet's primary and secondary backings
What can setting the knee kicker or power stretcher pins too shallow cause the primary backing to do?
✔✔Release tufts
In order to stop or prevent most buckling in stretch-in carpet, what two things should installers use
in combination? ✔✔1. Power stretcher
2. Knee kicker
What seaming tool does not make contact with thermoplastic adhesive on carpet seaming
tape? ✔✔radio frequency seaming unit
A power stretcher handle should be used with a pumping motion to give carpet time to do what?
✔✔relax
, What item should be placed between any wall and the butt end of a power stretcher? ✔✔stretcher
board (padded 2-4 inch by 4 foot board)
When can a knee kicker or mini-restretcher be used? ✔✔reattach a carpet corner to a tackstrip
Identify a tool used to follow up hot-melt seaming to remove excess heat almost instantaneously.
✔✔vacuum cooling tool
What is the time it takes for a hot-melt adhesive to harden or become firm after a repair? ✔✔set
up time
The two major purposes of tack strip (gripper) are to hold stretched carpet and what else?
✔✔protect the carpet edge
What is the major difference between standard and architectural tack strip (gripper)? ✔✔added
width and extra row of pins
When carpet meets clamp-down transition moldings, what should be done with the edges?
✔✔tuck them tightly into molding
What kind of manufactured carpet (pictured below) is always cut pile, has a heavily ribbed back,
and rolls easily in the warp (length) direction? ✔✔woven axminster carpet
Axminster weaves stretch primarily in which direction? ✔✔length direction (warp)
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