TIL a weird stair landing in an old house in Tacoma can eat a whole afternoon

Had to install carpet on this angled landing with three different walls meeting at odd corners. Thought it was a two hour cut and tuck job, but getting the pattern to line up across all those weird seams took me almost five hours. Anyone else run into a staircase that just fought them the whole way?

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joelsanchez2d ago

Tell me about the pattern. Was it a simple loop pile or something with a strong geometric design that had to match at every seam? I once had a plaid pattern on a set of winder stairs and lining up those lines across the angled treads was a special kind of torture. The math just goes out the window when the walls aren't square.

tarab542d ago

Oh man, @joelsanchez, you mentioning the math going out the window is so true. It's like the walls are actively fighting you on those angled cuts.