Vent: I stretched every bedroom with a knee kicker for 6 years until a guy in Dayton set me straight
I always figured the kicker was faster for small rooms, so I never bothered dragging the power stretcher off the truck for anything under 200 sq ft. Back in March a guy named Ray watched me kick in a 12x14 and just shook his head and asked if I was coming back next winter. That got me thinking, so I started pulling my seams and found the gap at the wall was 3/8 inch on jobs I did two years back. Turns out 6 years of short rooms were all springing back slow and I blamed the pad every time. I switched to the stretcher on everything now, even closets, and my callback list has dropped to almost nothing since April. Ray never said a word about being right, he just handed me a tube of seam sealer and walked off.