Installation Instructions

CRI 105 - STANDARD For INSTALLATION of RESIDENTIAL CARPET

Broadloom Carpet

16.6

Pattern Alignment

Match the pattern at the midpoint of the seam’s length. Work from the seam’s midpoint to

the seam ends.

Bring the pattern into register using appropriate tools that might include (refer to Table I –

Tools & Materials at the end of this document):

power stretcher

knee kicker

dead man

“dry” lines

stay nails

double-headed mini-stretcher (“crab stretcher”)

NOTE: For patterned carpet, exercise care to ensure pattern alignment along walls. The use

of mechanical stretching devices, stay-nails and a “dead man” may be necessary to achieve

pattern match at seams and alignment along walls.