Ngl @adamthompson I gotta push back a little. That "feels right" stuff is exactly why I had to make five pies. Grandma's recipe was already good for her kitchen, but the whole point of baking is adapting, not guessing. You cracked it with trial and error, not some vague intuition.

Using a tissue or cotton round to help with sliding instead of digging in" - that's brilliant, never thought of that. @xenaf51 you just changed how I'm going to do my next facial.

Had a buddy lose his shirt on a similar deal with a client in Phoenix. Now he walks if they try to add a single new clause.

Remember reading a test Gamers Nexus did a while back where they tested like 20 different application methods and basically said the same thing, within 2-4 degrees across the board. People act like you need to be a surgeon applying this stuff but a blob in the middle covers everything fine in my experience. I usually just do a pea slightly bigger than a grain of rice and call it good. The real trick is making sure you have enough, not too little, way more important than how you spread it.

Man, that staple gun rodeo hits too close to home. Walked into a job in Round Rock last year where they'd run cat6 behind wall insulation with zero fireblock or support. All it took was one drywaller pulling the line taut to pop every keystone jack off the faceplate. Had to fish new runs through a two-story chase and it was like playing Operation with a coat hanger. Your builder's "experienced sub" probably learned from YouTube tutorials.