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hugos67
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1d ago
Vent: wrote off $2,400 pour-in-place countertop forms for 2 years, then my concrete guy in Fresno proved me wrong
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thomas784
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1d ago
I offered a customer a 10% discount to lock in a deck job, and it cost me $340
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grant_cooper
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5d ago
Hot take: I was measuring crown molding from the wrong corner for 8 years
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david_butler54
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6d ago
My helper taped the outlet boxes before I could check, cost me $40 in drywall and a whole afternoon
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alice_wilson73
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11d ago
TIL a $3 tube of caulk saved my $1,200 bathroom tile job in Boise
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terrywalker
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11d ago
A foreman in Tulsa told me my conduit runs looked like spaghetti, so I bought a bender and it cut my rough-in time by 3 hours
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wendy_mason86
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11d ago
Blew $270 on a used tile saw off Marketplace and the blade wobble was so bad it cut a curve
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patricia_hayes
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12d ago
Framed the garage with 2x4s instead of 2x6s to save $380, and now I'm second guessing it
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quinn582
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13d ago
Saw a guy take a circular saw to a load bearing wall in Boise and the whole room went quiet
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rivera.jake
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15d ago
Debate: sweeping a cut line with a broom before you caulk vs. just running the bead and calling it good
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the_joseph
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17d ago
Watched a guy eat a $900 mistake on a framing job in Boise and it changed how I write my bids
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the_charlie
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18d ago
My old foreman said he could hang 40 sheets of drywall solo by 2pm, I called BS on it for 3 years
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hill.barbara
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19d ago
Can we talk about paying $425 for a used tile saw when a $40 grinder would've done it?
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jason752
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19d ago
I used to carry a clipboard with 40 change orders, now it's one photo and a text to the client
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verac40
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25d ago
A misplaced vent pipe in a 1920s house cost me 9 hours and two drywall patches
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