Loading…
16
I used to skip the knee kicker on stairs, then a job in Tulsa changed my mind
I stopped using my knee kicker on stair jobs about a week ago after a guy named Dale showed me his setup at a house off 15th Street in Tulsa. For 6 years I figured stretching by hand and a few taps with the hammer was plenty, but my stair edges kept puckering after a hot day and I was getting callbacks. Dale had a little homemade block that let him kick into the riser without marking the drywall, and his seam at the landing looked dead flat. I tried it on my next job, a 14 step run in Broken Arrow, and the carpet pulled tight with maybe half the effort. My knees still hurt but the edge stayed put when the AC came on that afternoon. Has anyone else built a block like that, or do you all just run the kicker straight into the riser and eat the scuffs?
1 comments
Log in to join the discussion
Log In1 Comment
mila_brown1015d ago
Lol a homemade block is just a kicker with extra steps, but hey if Dale's magic wood chunk saves your drywall I can't hate. My knee kicker and I have a love-hate thing going, mostly hate after 14 steps.
1