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Rant: The time I had to cut a carpet around a weird fireplace in a Denver condo
I was in this high rise downtown, laying carpet in a living room with a big stone fireplace that stuck out at a weird angle. I started to cut the carpet to fit around it like normal, but my knife slipped and I made a huge, jagged tear right in the middle of a piece. My heart sank. I had to stop, take a breath, and cut a whole new patch piece to seam in. It added like two hours to the job. Has anyone else had a simple cut turn into a nightmare on a weird shaped obstacle?
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grace_knight196mo ago
That "weird angle" on a fireplace is the worst. I once had to trim baseboard around a radiator pipe that was just slightly off the wall. A simple miter turned into a bunch of weird, pieced together cuts that looked awful. Some things just fight you the whole way.
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green.iris6mo ago
A radiator pipe too? That's just cruel.
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milaj956mo ago
But isn't that what makes the job interesting?
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williamw755mo ago
There's a fine line between interesting and just plain broken. Fighting a house for eight hours to make one cut look halfway decent isn't a puzzle, it's a sign something was built wrong. The interesting part comes from doing good work, not from fixing other people's bad work. That radiator pipe story sounds like a Tuesday I'd rather forget.
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