Has anyone ever done carpet stretching themselves (not with a carpet installer)?

Question

We're getting ready to put our house on the market and our hallway has about 4 buckles in the carpet. We had though about renting a carpet stretcher from home depot but aren't sure we can do it ourselves. How hard is it to do? The thing is, in the hallway we have about 4 room entryways that we would have to work with when trying to stretch it and when you stretch it where do you go with the excess carpet? Is there any good website that tells how to do it?

Answer 1

check out http://diynetwork.com

they do the DIY cable tv shows, they have information on how to strech carpet and many other things you should do (for cheap) when your putting your house on the market

Answer 2

google carpet stretching see what you find.

Answer 3

Better to get a professional in - it's a good awy of wrecking your knees if you don't know what you are doing or are not used to it, and save the hire cost.

Answer 4

I recommend just calling someone.  It's not too expensive.  We rented one once and even though my DH got the job done it just wasn't "right".  We ended up calling someone anyway.  Plus his knees hurt for days afterward.

PS the excess carpet just goes around the tack boards.