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Tack strip being removed from a floor. Tack strip also known as gripper rod, carpet gripper, Smoothedge tackless strip, gripper strip or gripper edge is a thin piece of wood, between 1 and 2 metres (3.3 and 6.6 ft) long and about 3 centimetres (1.2 in) wide, studded with hundreds of sharp nails or tacks used in the installation of carpet.
The carpet fitter is stretching a carpet onto gripper strip using a manual stretcher tool. Fitted carpet , also wall-to-wall carpet , is a carpet intended to cover a floor entirely. Carpet over 4 meters in length is usually installed with the use of a power-stretcher (tubed or tubeless).
Flooring is the general term for a permanent covering of a floor, or for the work of installing such a floor covering. Floor covering is a term to generically describe any finish material applied over a floor structure to provide a walking surface. Both terms are used interchangeably but floor covering refers more to loose-laid materials.
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A strip of material with various profiles used to cover transitions between surfaces or for decoration. moulding plane. Also spelled molding plane. mortise. Also spelled mortice. A cavity or hole, generally rectangular, in a piece of wood, meant to receive a tenon or a hinge. mitre. Also spelled miter.