How to cut / straight edge carpet

How to straight edge carpet for a seam

[FloorsbySouthernboys]

I am teaching my nine year old grandson how to shoot videos. He is the one who recorded this footage for the video.

[texazwhyte]

Started cutting before I watched ur YouTube, only a foot or so, , then flicked to your channel, , just in time. Cheers!!

[johnlubeck]

Awesome! Exactly what I needed to know how to do. Simple and straightforward but an amateur like me can do it completely wrong.

[MediumRareSteve]

I love watching masters of their craft and you sir are a master of your craft!

[jodysanders]

Solid gold, brother. I had to watch the old timers who wouldn’t tell you anything…

[robertcoats]

That’s a real nice knife! Show us the engravings if ya would?

[EL-Koko-Loco]

It’s just the little details that make a difference.

[runningchief]

I just finished 100 units of carpet stringers, 2 floors each.

I hope I'm done cutting carpet this year.

[Matt]

I have an area of carpet that will be meeting up with tile in a doorway and I need to pull the carpet back about 3" for the tile to sit correctly in the doorway. Do I just pull back the carpet cut it to size and move the tack strip to the new location?

[thirdcoastcarpet]

I assumed the exact same logic applies to cross seams? Out in Houston and since the hurricane been doing lots of replacing with builder grade carpets, cut-pile carpets with nap as short as the commercial loop-piles. I think this is the issue I’ve been having but with cross-seams, row cuts are no issue.

[bobbys]

great video but how would you cut and join a seam when the carpet is laid down and stretched ie join a hallway into a bedroom doorway

[jonathancowdin]

Yup, did a couple of those today lol, i hate the ones that are almost impossible to seal on the flowing in side, gotta run that gun so carefully

[jsballeck]

Seam looked great . Did you try awling it and it did not look good? Some products just don't like to be awled

[solb]

Thanks for the vid. How do you get both cuts precisely squared?

[rugmanbob]

i always had a knife with blade sticking out thickness of the backing, never cut into the fibers

[alexcleroux]

Maybe a long shot here, but you wouldn't happen to know where I could find a plate for my wall trimer, the part where it holds the blades. The old school 10-616 roberts trimmers have been looking everywhere and can not find a replacement part...

[Chris-wt]

Sometimes I use a serpentine straight edge for lots of different reasons