Agree with @lisa_brown that missing reinforcement plus bad base prep is a recipe for cracks fast like that.

Hang on, 120 square feet of peel and stick in four hours? That sounds literally impossible unless you had a crew, lmao. I spent a whole weekend just doing a small bathroom floor once and wanted to cry. Frank must be some kind of wizard with that heat gun.

I felt the same way until my buddy told me what happened to him in a hostel in Thailand. He was in a 16-bed dorm trying to find his clean shirt at 6am and woke up like 4 people rustling his bag. After that he swore by cubes and even got his girlfriend a set for Christmas lol. His cheap ones from Amazon held up fine for 3 years of backpacking so I don't think you gotta drop $40. But yeah, the airport bathroom charger hunt is real and cubes fix that struggle fast.

That polished handle story is exactly why pretty tools worry me more than they impress.

You ever have one of those projects where you just say "screw it" and reach for the hot glue gun? @kaimiller I once tried to fix a ripped tent with that stuff and ended up with a sleeve fused to the zipper. Mike's hat probably looks better than my mess honestly.