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Hooked up my 200th house in one neighborhood and finally admitted the fish tape was slowing me down
Been running cable in the same Dallas subdivision for 3 weeks and hit house 200 on Thursday. My foreman Rick watched me fight a fish tape through a packed wall cavity and asked why I never tried pulling with the vacuum and a plastic bag. Tried it on the next 12 runs and each one was done in under 4 minutes. Anyone else resist a simple trick for way too long before finally giving in?
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claire_young7610d ago
Watched my brother re-tile a whole bathroom last summer before someone finally told him about the $20 tile spacer tool that would've saved him two days. He just kept saying he knew what he was doing. Reminded me of how I used to sweep my garage with a broom before I finally tried a leaf blower. Sometimes the easy way just feels like cheating until you try it once.
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margaretramirez10d ago
Wait, your brother tiled an entire bathroom without spacers and thought that was fine? That is wild to me because grout lines without spacers turn into a crooked mess, and he must have been fighting every single tile by hand. Two days of extra work just to prove a point is honestly impressive in a painful way (my dad is the exact same, he once patched a hole in the drywall with like six layers of spackle instead of just cutting a square and putting in a new piece). The leaf blower thing gets me too because I did the same with a push broom on my driveway for years, and the first time I borrowed my neighbor's blower I felt so dumb standing there while it took me ten minutes instead of an hour. Some lessons you just have to learn the hard way, I guess.
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