Seaming Doorways | Part 3 | Trim & Tuck Carpets

[@aaronmaloney8]

Art work guys ❤

[@backpackingireland8624]

Excellent lads . Having worked in NZ (I’m Irish) we joined in doors every day. I burnt out a heat seamer in 1 year ! Carpets were only 12’ wide . New bungalows predominantly were a 30m roll . Power stretching everything thing . We had to be able to join in doors not at right angles or square. Sometimes 45* angles 😂 Like the look of that Kool seam . Atb Tony 🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@patodonovan8364]

Brilliant job as always would love to see ye fit those woven synthetic axes.

[@TrimTuckCarpets]

😅 they’re a pain to fit! I must say….

[@keithhedley1392]

Fantastic job well done 👍🏻

[@jackandersoniii6328]

You guys did a beautiful job. For cutting seams as well as burning them, I use a piece of 6mm underpayment board. Including in the doorways. This “seam board” will give you a solid support under the carpet while cutting and burning for a perfect result. Getting it out from under the doorway after the seam has cooled is a just a little tricky.

[@TrimTuckCarpets]

I agree. There is a board it comes with. Just not sure where it is now lol A plank of Lvt works well also. But if we didn’t fail the 1st attempt we wouldn’t be in that mess lol

[@stanleyflooring6772]

The carpet looks exactly like one i fit from brockway, big 8x5 with a 170x5 join. Was told its quite tricky to join and you couldnt row cut it cause the pattern was staggered, to my amazement i did a perfect join on it first time. Unfortunately the cleaners dropped green fairy liquid in the middle of the carpet the next day and then scrubbed it and fucked it, when i replaced it i couldnt for the life of me get the join to go together nicely 😵‍💫

[@drawnbody51]

Few questions for everyone; I bought 4 awls to get started but i havnt used them as much as i thought. Doing shop work its a balance between time and effort and if the customer is paying £60 for a full prep staircase that takes 6 hours on my own theres only so much effort you're willing to put in. Its a bad system, does anyone have similar experiences and how does shop work compare to 100% private work? Whats a seamer down? Does anyone with a seam weight thinknits worth the money after they boight one? Theyre like £120+! Does anybody use / recommend seam clamps / locks or whatever theyre called and how many would you buy? Cheers!

[@Robert-vw3od]

A nice double would look great there😂

[@TrimTuckCarpets]

Lol customer disagrees

[@Robert-vw3od]

@@TrimTuckCarpets if you’re doing that work a lot then yes it’s justifiable your work is fantastic but the problem is in huge sections of the country you’re never going to get the money for doing it.

[@TrimTuckCarpets]

@@Robert-vw3od only with certain clients will this work, work with.

[@peterehnes559]

Well done job Try cutting your cross seams with a scissor You have more control of the edge

[@neilmccluskie2374]

nice job and a big thumbs up to you guys for doing that join again. do u guys use the kool glide glue sticks? you now have a new sub 😁

[@TrimTuckCarpets]

Hey man. Thanks for the support! We only use the seam sealer. Having said that. We do have the glue gun and glue sticks for the koolglide. But more use to the seam sealer

[@robertgoss7355]

I live in the u.s. . we always have doorway seams. I wish people would use doorway bars here. I've been installing 25 Years and have never gotten to use one. Its just different styles in different pars of the world ,I guess.

[@jimmack3968]

Join on the length? Will fail 4 years down the line best run west to east and commit the join further in the room

[@reecedean6462]

Don’t miss doing joins 🤣 did a lot back in the day. Old company I worked for had a contract with Cadogan in Chelsea and had to seam up 50% of our work. Don’t envy these Americans doing it day in day out 😅

[@TrimTuckCarpets]

It is a ball-ache

[@propaah]

dont ever lay carpet in New Zealand because all we do here is joins lol wish we had Z bars haha

[@jonathancowdin3775]

Thats all I do is seams in doorways every day here state side lol, I'm about to go do a pattern doorway seam in just a few hours, they can be brutal sometimes

[@RussellDite]

How about a short reel " All of you having a cup of tea chatting ' Wages ' and debating the payment ladder " ...... Not a debate just a chat ........ Nice viewing , for instance the stairs where you can take your time ( always someone in a room fitting thinking / He's taking his time on them stairs / guy on the stairs is like / their taking time in them rooms ) a proper debate ...... And typically over a cup of tea ( name a floor layer who doesn't talk shizzle over a luke warm cup of something ) . Nice finished article though lads , top job .

[@Robert-vw3od]

Quite sadly I never discourage customers from having joins anti you don’t need to have them.

[@stanleyflooring6772]

Sometimes i think customers purposefully make choices to make our lives hard 😂. As long as they're charged for the time.spent seaming i guess its ok

[@drawnbody51]

That's my gripe atm is that for me, a no prep easy peasy room that takes 20-30 mins is the same fitting price as a full prep, full furniture room with joins, uplift and dispose that takes a few hours. So it begs the question do you just rock up and chuck the bugger down or do you put 100% effort in but make less money because of it. It basically means the less effort and worse the job you do, the more you get paid. And the more effort the more time you put into a job getting it perfect, the less money you make. Thoughts anybody?

[@stanleyflooring6772]

@johnd2299 its exactly like that, thats why i only do newbuilds as theyre empty and consistent. Only customer houses i do will be jobs i sell so i can charge accordingly for everything.