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Serious question, has anyone else had a client completely dismiss your prep work?
A guy in Omaha looked at me sanding a table and said, 'Why are you wasting time on that? Just slap the stain on.' I had to explain that skipping the prep is why his last DIY project looked like a toddler did it. How do you politely shut down that kind of thinking?
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grant_green218mo ago
Staring at my phone trying to process the deck paint story. It peeled off in sheets and he still blamed the paint? That's next-level denial right there. I get not knowing prep is important, but ignoring the proof right in front of you is wild. It's like looking at a flat tire and blaming the air for being the wrong shape.
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sanchez.pat7mo ago
Honestly I see this kind of thing all the time. People buy cheap paint and skip the hard work, then act shocked when it fails. Maybe they just don't want to admit they messed up, but is it really worth getting worked up over. Let the guy have his bad batch story, it's just a deck.
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milascott8mo ago
My uncle tried to paint his deck without cleaning it first... said it would 'weather in'. The paint peeled off in sheets two months later. He still argues it was a bad batch of paint. Some people just won't get it until they're standing in the mess.
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