I dunno... compacting might help a bit, but from experience, soil settles unpredictably over time no matter how much you tamp it down. Had a patio sla...

I get where you're coming from, but I dunno... informal agreements can be tricky. My uncle had a similar setup with his neighbor—started off great, cl...

Did something similar once—daily check-ins—but honestly felt like paying extra just to babysit. Curious... did your subcontractor ever push back on th...

Haha, guilty as charged. I got one of those smart thermostats last year thinking it'd save me a fortune, but honestly, after the first week of obsessi...

Had something similar when we redid our bathroom—inspector flagged our vanity height for being off by less than half an inch. At first, I thought it w...

Yeah, gotta agree with this. My sister put cork flooring in her home office and loves it—soft, warm, quiet—but when she tried it in the hallway near t...