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2. The Ultimate Guide to Wall-to-Wall Carpet - AOL

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   Wall-to-wall carpet’s heyday wasn’t all that long ago. “Wall-to-wall faded during the dot-com boom of the 1990s,” says designer and Stark Carpet ambassador Tim Sheridan.

3. Fitted carpet - Wikipedia

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   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). Fitted carpets were originally woven to the dimensions of the specific area they were covering.

4. Stair carpet - Wikipedia

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   Since 'wall to wall' fitted carpeting became very popular in the late 1950s, the word can now also describe a less notable design element than it traditionally did formerly. A traditional stair carpet was characterized by not covering the full width of the stair but leaving the underlying wood−stone−tile of the tread and risers open to view ...

5. Carpet stretcher - Wikipedia

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   A carpet stretcher is a specialized tool used to install wall-to-wall carpet. The tool grips the carpet with a set of tines on the head. A force applied to the tool then tensions the carpet and pulls it closer to the wall, where it can be fixed to a tack strip. There are two main types of carpet stretchers: "power stretchers" and "knee kickers ...

6. Furring - Wikipedia

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   Vertical, metal furring is applied to the wall to create a channel and receive the siding material. In construction, furring (furring strips) are strips of wood or other material applied to a structure to level or raise the surface, to prevent dampness, to make space for insulation, to level and resurface ceilings or walls, [1] or to increase the beam of a wooden ship.

7. Carpet - Wikipedia

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   A carpet is sometimes defined as stretching from wall to wall. [6] Another definition treats rugs as of lower quality or of smaller size, with carpets quite often having finished ends. A third common definition is that a carpet is permanently fixed in place while a rug is simply laid out on the floor.