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Rant: Replacing a single broken tile in my bathroom floor took me three entire weekends because the subfloor was a mess.
I thought it would be a quick Saturday job, but the old adhesive was like concrete and I had to level a huge section of the plywood underneath before I could even think about setting the new one, so what's your worst time estimate fail?
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rowan_roberts497mo ago
Three entire weekends" is brutal. That old adhesive turning into concrete is the worst kind of surprise. I once tried to replace a single kitchen cabinet door hinge. The screw heads were stripped and the wood was basically dust. What started as a ten minute fix turned into a whole new door and an afternoon of swearing. Did you have to use a special tool to get that tile adhesive up, or was it just a chisel and pure anger?
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julia_lee7mo ago
That stripped screw situation @rowan_roberts49 described sounds familiar. Did you end up using a rotary tool or just brute force to get the old tile out?
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black.val6mo ago
Remember reading about someone trying to fix a wobbly ceiling fan? They thought it was just a loose bracket. Turned out the whole electrical box was barely hanging on to a single, rotten joist. They had to cut open the ceiling, sister in new wood, the whole nightmare. Makes a three weekend tile job sound almost normal. Some of these old houses hide the worst problems behind the simplest fixes.
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