Sleep like a raccoon on a fence is funny but is sliding down really that big a deal?

Six months is nothing in rental years, wait till a tenant cranks the stove and slams that wall with steam every day for two winters. Adhesive tech did get better, but the real test is heat plus grease plus someone scrubbing it with a sponge, not Carol's quiet cooking. I'd still grout real tile in a rental because one redo costs more than the fancy peel and stick saves.

Tape grain is the whole point, yeah. I fought that for a while because I wanted my tapes to sound clean and "good." Kept messing with the levels trying to get rid of the hiss. Then a friend told me to just let the tape do its thing. Started recording hotter, not clipping but pushing it, and the grain stopped being a problem and started being part of the sound. Once I stopped treating it like a flaw I actually got somewhere with it. Now I leave the hiss alone and it sits under everything like glue.