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2010 Product Lineup

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Butt Buddy
Stair Stretcher (SS-1000)
Air Stretcher (AS-1000 rev. 1)
Super Air Stretcher (AS-2000)
Air Mini Stretcher (MS-2000)
Junior Air Power Stretcher (JPS-1000-APN)
Junior Air Power Stretcher (JPS-2000)
Senior Air Power Stretcher (SPS-1000-RC)
Butt Buddy The Butt Buddy Universal Carpet Top Cutter is a revolutionary, patent pending, technology from the Pro-Stretch Carpet Installation System that greatly simplifies the seam cutting process on all types of carpet.
Stair Stretcher (SS-1000) The Stair Stretcher is a knee kicker replacement tool that reduces workplace injury and makes the process of stretching carpet on stairs easy and efficient.
Air Stretcher (AS-1000 rev. 1) This is the all new Air Stretcher that has evolved from the original "Air Kicker" knee kicker replacement tool. As with the Air Kicker the AS-1000 is used primarily as a placement tool. While the AS-1000 can be used to stretch closets and very short spans of carpet it is recommended to use a power stretcher to achieve CRI specifications for stretch on length and width (1 to 1.5 % stretch depending on manufacturer recommendation).
Super Air Stretcher (AS-2000) The AS-2000 Super Air Stretcher has all of the versatility of the AS-1000 with a substantial power upgrade. The additional power allows installers to not only place carpet (ie. replace the knee kicker) but also intentionally distort carpet to repair bowing or skewing that often occurs in the manufacturing process. With the additional power of the AS-2000 the installer can also achieve CRI specifications for stretch on width and length for small rooms, closets etc.
Air Mini Stretcher (MS-2000) New to the Pro-Stretch Carpet Installation System is the powerful, yet versatile, Air Mini Stretcher. The MS-2000 is a replacement for the Mini Stretcher (aka. Crab) and can be used to stretch carpet to CRI specifications in small to mid-sized rooms. More powerful than an Air Stretcher and more versatile than a Power Stretcher, the MS-2000 is an excellent production tool on mid-sized to large crews.
Junior Air Power Stretcher (JPS-1000-APN) New to the lineup in 2010 is the Junior Air Power Stretcher with Air Pinner Attachment. The JPS-1000-APN gives all the stretching power of the original JPS-1000 with it's ability to generate equivalent stretch power as the conventional pole stretcher. The JPS-1000 series is truly a pole stretcher replacement tool that is able to meet and exceed CRI specifications for stretch on length and width on even the most demanding jobs.

Junior Air Power Stretcher (JPS-2000) The all new JPS-2000 Junior Air Power Stretcher provides all of the power of the pole stretcher replacement tools with the versatility of the smaller tools. The swivel head design allows the installer to hit 15 degree stretches with enough power to meet or exceed CRI stretch specifications of 1 to 1.5 percent of length and width each and every time.

Senior Air Power Stretcher (SPS-1000-RC) The Remote Controlled Senior Power Stretcher is the most feature rich tool in the Pro-Stretch Carpet Installation System. The innovative remote control system allows the operator to choose between standing or kneeling positions while stretching and pinning with push button ease. The Senior Air Power Stretcher is the ultimate pole stretcher replacement tool.

Press Release June 1, 2009

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.  •