Reminds me of a load shift that spooked @milesbailey last spring.

Your cousin's story is a good example of why price alone doesn't work... but a really low price is still a huge red flag. A thorough inspection just takes time, and time costs money. That fancy inspector was probably just bad at his job, not a sign that all higher-priced options are a scam. You're right that being thorough is the key, but finding that often means paying a fair rate, not the bottom rate.

Ugh, tell me about it. We tried that same stuff on a forge door and it just fell apart after a week of normal use. The spec sheet says one thing, but real world heat cycling is a whole different beast. It's like they only test it in a perfect lab, not in an actual dirty, vibrating shop. Cost us more in downtime to fix it than we saved buying the fancy blanket.