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My whole crew was building decks with the wrong spacing for years, and a city inspector in Spokane finally called us out on it.
He pointed at a 16-foot section and said, 'That gap is a full quarter-inch over code, and it's going to trap water and rot the joists in five years,' which made me realize we'd been trusting an old, warped spacer block for every single job.
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alexj992mo agoTop Commenter
Man, that's a tough lesson. A warped spacer will do that to you, it's crazy how one little tool can throw off a whole crew's work for years.
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the_linda2mo ago
Wait, did you say years? That's insane. I figured maybe a few weeks of messed up work, but years is next level. How did nobody catch that sooner? Honestly makes me want to go check every single tool in my garage right now.
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stellam891mo ago
Right? It's like one of those things where you just ASSUME something is fine because it's been "fine" forever. I see it everywhere, not just with tools but with routines, habits, even like, the way people talk. We all have these little blind spots where we just trust the system without ever checking it, until one day the whole thing falls apart. Makes you wonder how many things in our own lives are slightly "warped" and nobody's bothered to look.
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