Got a Wagner sprayer on sale last spring to repaint my cabinets. Saved maybe $100 in labor but spent 3 days stripping paint off my counters, floor, and the cat. Ended up paying a guy $250 to fix the mess with a brush. Has anyone else had better luck with those things or am I just cursed with overspray?
I used to trust those little blue plastic anchors for everything, then last March a 20 pound shelf pulled right out of the wall in Columbus and nearly crushed my tabby. Switched to the threaded steel ones that you hammer in, they hold way better and I can actually hang a heavy mirror now. Anyone else got a load-bearing disaster story that forced a change?
Bought a cheap squeeze tube caulk gun because I only needed one tube for a tub reskin, and it kept dripping no matter how slow I went. Pulled it all out after 2 days and found the tube had a crack near the nozzle where the plunger pressure split it, so the gun was never the problem. Anyone else wasted time blaming a tool when the material itself was already toast?