How to cut / straight edge carpet

[@FloorsbySouthernboys]

I am teaching my nine year old grandson how to shoot videos. He is the one who recorded this footage for the video.

[@MediumRareSteve]

I love watching masters of their craft and you sir are a master of your craft!

[@FloorsbySouthernboys]

@@MediumRareSteve thank you

[@errolbrown3025]

Great video. Thanks Reuben.

[@jodysanders6445]

Solid gold, brother. I had to watch the old timers who wouldn’t tell you anything…

[@FloorsbySouthernboys]

@@jodysanders6445 oh that sucks. Sometimes it’s little things like this that people struggle with, and when somebody has been done it forever they don’t realize that these little things are needed also. I am guilty of that focus mostly on complicated things and I really need to get more basic.

[@robertcoats5276]

That’s a real nice knife! Show us the engravings if ya would?

[@berkscatbill5582]

interesting tip , thanks

[@FloorsbySouthernboys]

@@berkscatbill5582 😀👍

[@bobbys2160]

great video but how would you cut and join a seam when the carpet is laid down and stretched ie join a hallway into a bedroom doorway

[@FloorsbySouthernboys]

@@bobbys2160 I will show you

[@Choicejodi]

I straight edge one side then mark the other side on both ends and in the middle. In the middle helps me a lot, it seems when you fold back the peice to straight edge it, the fold makes it off a little in the middle.

[@FloorsbySouthernboys]

@@Choicejodi you are correct

[@runningchief]

I just finished 100 units of carpet stringers, 2 floors each. I hope I'm done cutting carpet this year.

[@FloorsbySouthernboys]

@@runningchief daaaang

[@compasscarpetrepair]

nice tip on angle cutting it

[@FloorsbySouthernboys]

@@compasscarpetrepair thank you Christian

[@thirdcoastcarpet]

I assumed the exact same logic applies to cross seams? Out in Houston and since the hurricane been doing lots of replacing with builder grade carpets, cut-pile carpets with nap as short as the commercial loop-piles. I think this is the issue I’ve been having but with cross-seams, row cuts are no issue.

[@FloorsbySouthernboys]

@@thirdcoastcarpet yep exactly. This was a cross team that I was demonstrating here.

[@SanMan_22]

It’s just the little details that make a difference.

[@FloorsbySouthernboys]

@@SanMan_22 yup

[@solb101]

Thanks for the vid. How do you get both cuts precisely squared?

[@FloorsbySouthernboys]

@@solb101 I will do a video on that

[@andybrace4983]

Lovely old job

[@rugmanbob]

i always had a knife with blade sticking out thickness of the backing, never cut into the fibers

[@FloorsbySouthernboys]

@@rugmanbob nice

[@jonathancowdin3775]

Yup, did a couple of those today lol, i hate the ones that are almost impossible to seal on the flowing in side, gotta run that gun so carefully

[@FloorsbySouthernboys]

@@jonathancowdin3775 yup

[@alexcleroux3054]

Maybe a long shot here, but you wouldn't happen to know where I could find a plate for my wall trimer, the part where it holds the blades. The old school 10-616 roberts trimmers have been looking everywhere and can not find a replacement part...

[@FloorsbySouthernboys]

@@alexcleroux3054 this trimmer he’s just like the old Roberts 10 616. I’m certain they will swap out. www.fbsb.store/product/carpet-trimmer/131

[@alexcleroux3054]

@@FloorsbySouthernboys thanks ill check it out.

[@jsballeck]

Seam looked great . Did you try awling it and it did not look good? Some products just don't like to be awled

[@FloorsbySouthernboys]

@@jsballeck this is simply just to show people how to use a straight edge. I had a request for that so not everybody knows how to do it. I usually count to row cut everything myself

[@Chris-w1t]

Sometimes I use a serpentine straight edge for lots of different reasons

[@FloorsbySouthernboys]

@@Chris-w1t I have only used a serpentine straight edge one time in my life. It did the job