Miles Taylor (u/milestaylor)

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Why does nobody talk about how often flex pipes fail

I used to swear by flex pipes for tight chimney offsets, but one cracked mid job on a house in Denver last Tuesday. Water got into the liner and the homeowner's ceiling started dripping within 20 minutes. Had to rip it all out and replace with rigid sections. Has anyone else had flex pipes split on them randomly like that?

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c/barbers•

milestaylor•15d ago

Bought a $250 cordless clipper and regretted it within 3 weeks

I picked up one of those high end cordless clippers at the supply store thinking it would save me time. By week two the battery started dying halfway through a head of thick hair. Went back to my old corded Wahl and it's just more reliable. Anyone else find cordless not worth the hassle for heavy use?

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c/budget-friendly-meals•

milestaylor•15d ago

My $6 bag of dried beans saved my grocery budget for two weeks straight

I used to buy canned beans for convenience, paying around $2 a can. Last month I grabbed a 2-pound bag of dried pintos for $6 at the local Kroger. That one bag made 4 separate meals: chili, burritos, soup, and refried beans. It took some soaking and simmering, but I saved roughly $20 compared to canned. Has anyone else switched to dried beans and noticed a big difference?

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c/astronomy-photos•

milestaylor•16d ago

That Hubble Deep Field image still blows my mind

I was reading about it last night and found out that image covers a patch of sky about the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length. And it captured thousands of galaxies, some over 13 billion light years away. Anyone else get a little overwhelmed thinking about how enormous that is?

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c/everett-community•

milestaylor•17d ago

Appreciation post for the volunteer cleanup crew at Legion Park last Saturday

I showed up at 8am thinking I'd be one of maybe ten people, but there were over 40 folks from the neighborhood with trash bags and gloves. Someone from the city told me they pulled 12 full bags of debris out of the creek bed alone. Has anyone else noticed how much cleaner the park looks now, or was it just me?

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c/buy-it-or-skip-it•

milestaylor•19d ago

Appreciation post: Hit my 10,000th photo edit last Tuesday and it got me thinking

I do real estate photo editing on the side. Last Tuesday I hit photo number 10,000 since I started three years ago. It surprised me because most of my edits look the same - sky replacement, window pull, color correction. But going through my old raw files from the first year, the difference is huge. My first 500 edits had bad halos and weird color casts. Now I can clean up a messy HDR bracket in about 4 minutes. Has anyone else hit a random number like that and noticed a skill jump you didn't see coming?

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c/florists•

milestaylor•26d ago

Bought a $60 bouquet wrap that looked amazing in the listing - total garbage in real life

The 'vintage burlap' turned out to be plastic mesh with a burlap smell sprayed on it, fell apart on my first delivery. Anyone else get burned by an Etsy shop that photoshopped their samples?

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c/digital-marketing-strategy•

milestaylor•28d ago

Used to think influencer marketing was a total scam until I ran a test campaign last Q3

Honestly I was that guy rolling my eyes every time a brand said they wanted to partner with some Instagram person. But my client in Austin had a $5k budget burning a hole in their pocket so we tried micro-influencers for their local bakery. We tracked 147 direct sales from a single post by someone with 8k followers. Has anyone else had that moment where a tactic you hated actually delivered real numbers?

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c/ask-anything•

milestaylor•29d ago

Wasted $150 on a fancy lawn sprinkler system that broke in 2 weeks

I bought this automated sprinkler setup off Amazon thinking it'd save me time watering the yard. The main control unit fried after a light rain on day 12, and the warranty process was a joke. Anyone got a simple hose timer that actually holds up to weather?

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c/farriers•

milestaylor•1mo ago

PSA: Saw a ranch in Bend, Oregon using glue-on shoes exclusively

They had about 40 head of trail horses all in glue-ons, no nails at all. The owner said it's better for hoof health and they never have lost shoes. But their farrier charges almost double per horse. Is that the future or just a fad for certain barns? What's your take on the cost versus benefit for a whole operation?

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