Learned that the hard way with a fan on low instead.

Overblown" might not fit when you look at the actual numbers.

Yeah, that prep work is everything. We had a herringbone floor where we dry-laid the whole first row and checked it with a laser every few feet before any glue went down. Took forever, but it meant every subsequent row just followed that perfect line. Those jobs where you measure twice and cut once the whole way through are the ones you remember.