Mike from the supply shop is wrong. I've seen plenty of glue-down jobs ripple after a year because nobody stretched the carpet first. Pre-stretching takes like 15 minutes and saves you from coming back to fix bubbles.

Those 800 extra bad entries sound like a lot, but I wonder how much it actually mattered in the end. If the bot was just for messing around, not some official weather service, why spend three weeks hunting down bad data? I had a similar thing with a gardening app that kept saying it was 80 degrees in December in Minnesota. I just laughed and moved on. Feels like sometimes people get too caught up in making everything perfect when the real world is full of bad data anyway.

Jumped into a job last year where the homeowner wanted me to glue down some cheap foam backed carpet right over their brand new hardwood floors (which they'd just paid a fortune for). I tried to explain it would trap moisture and ruin the wood, but she insisted her cousin did it all the time and it worked fine. Ended up walking off that one too, because I just knew I'd be the one getting the angry call when the floor started warping and smelling like a wet basement. Some folks just have family members who do things the wrong way and swear by it, you know?

Yeah but I gotta disagree on that one a bit. I get the frustration with cheap tools snapping, but not every no-name brand is created equal these days. Some of that Amazon stuff is actually made in the same factories as the expensive brands, just without the markup and the truck visits. Ive had a cheap puller hold up for years on heavy use while my buddy's Snap-on version broke on the third job. Warranty is nice and all, but if I can buy five cheap ones for the price of one Snap-on and have them all work fine, I'm probably still ahead even if one fails. Plus filing down tips on a $400 tool just to make it fit a job feels like a hack I shouldn't have to do in the first place.

Oh, I hear you. My husband once used a cut-up piece of an old yoga mat to patch a hose. It worked great for about two hours until the water pressure blew it right off. Now we keep a little box of actual washers and gaskets under the sink.