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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alexj999d ago

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.

the_linda9d 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.