Pro-Stretch announces launch of Universal Carpet Top Cutter
The Butt Buddy Universal Carpet Top Cutter vastly improves seam cutting performance on all carpet materials
British Columbia, June 2009-- Flooring Innovator and noted tool inventor Lee Peters has announced a new tool from his Pro-Stretch Carpet Installation System that promises to change the way carpet seams are cut. The Universal Carpet Top Cutter, nicknamed the Butt Buddy for it’s ability to handle cross or butt cuts on the toughest of material, changes the way in which installers cut seams in all types of carpet. Lee Peters explains, “The Butt Buddy cuts all materials from the top and can cut in all directions, along the length, across the width or diagonally with minimal damage to the carpet pile.”
The tool accomplishes this by it’s patent pending design which allows the operator to adjust precisely to the gauge of the carpet and then protect the pile and allow the blade to cut only through the carpet backing. This methodology is in sharp contrast to the prevailing techniques of flipping the carpet and cutting the backing or using unreliable row cutters to cut loop pile.
The tool has been tested extensively along with the other tools that make up the Pro-Stretch Carpet Installation System. “The Butt Buddy is a real breakthrough for us,” Peters explains, “this tool, along with a few other tools in our newly developed seaming system, take the seaming process from a rate of success of approximately 70% all the way up to the high 90 percentile range on all materials every time. With this tool everyone wins...from the floor installer, the store owner to the customer.”
When presented at the British Columbia Floorlayers Training Center earlier in 2009 Instructors and trainees were extremely enthusiastic about the tool which greatly simplifies the seaming process in even the most difficult of materials. Peters points out, “When this tool is worked in conjunction with the seam squeezers, pattern matchers, thermasealer, and kool-glide iron the results are simply amazing.” Videos showing the Butt Buddy and the rest of the Pro-Stretch Seaming System in action are available on popular video streaming site youtube.com and the company’s own websites, prostretchsystem.com, carpetairkicker.com and buttbuddycuttingtool.com. The tool represents another success for the Pro-Stretch System in a flooring industry that has seen very little innovation in the past several decades. •