TIL a cat toy can fix a carpet seam gap in a pinch

I was finishing a job in a Denver apartment and the homeowner's cat kept batting a little plastic ball under the gap at a tricky seam. I grabbed the ball, wedged it under the carpet edge with my knee kicker, and it gave me just enough lift to re-stretch and close it up. Anyone ever used something totally random like that to get out of a jam?

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johnfoster9d ago

Nice save! Honestly, you use what you have on hand. I've used a stack of quarters instead of a shim before when a seam was just barely off. Sometimes the weird fix is the one that gets the job done right then, right? Gotta love when it works out.

hernandez.ben9d ago

Use what you have on hand" used to seem like a messy shortcut to me. But seeing fixes like the quarter stack work perfectly changed my mind. It really is about getting the job done right then.