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Switched from power stretcher to knee kicker on tight hallways
I used to always use my power stretcher for everything, no exceptions. Last Tuesday I tried a knee kicker on a 3 foot wide hallway in a house near Oakwood. It was way faster for those narrow spaces and I didn't have to fight with the pole scraping the walls. Has anyone else gone back to the old school tools for certain rooms?
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park.robin1d ago
That knee kicker in tight hallways is smart. The power stretcher on a 3 footer is just asking for trouble with the pole jamming into the trim. For really narrow runs under 4 feet the knee kicker gives you way more control. I still use the power stretcher for big open rooms but for bathrooms or laundry rooms the old tool is just faster.
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black.joel1d ago
@park.robin nailed it. I had the exact same wake up call last month on a 2.5 foot hallway in a rental. Power stretcher was scraping both sides, felt like I was wrestling an alligator. Switched to my old knee kicker and had that thing done in 10 minutes flat. Now I grab it for anything under 4 feet. Bathrooms, laundry rooms, closets. That extra control makes a big difference when you're crammed against a wall.
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