fiona_kim97•4d agoOG Member

Tried using a 6-inch knife for a whole basement ceiling job

Figured it would save me time on the taping since I wouldn't have to reload as often. But by the third room my wrist was screaming and I kept leaving ridges I had to sand down later. Took me twice as long in the end. Any of you guys switch knife sizes for big jobs and regret it?

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fiona_carr264d ago

Learned that lesson the hard way too. It's always the same thing with tools thinking bigger means faster but your body has its own limits.

angela_morgan3d ago

I had a buddy who thought he could remodel his whole kitchen in one weekend with nothing but a sledgehammer and adrenaline. By Sunday night he'd pulled his back so bad he couldn't stand up straight for a week, and his wife made him hire a crew to finish the job anyway. The demo part took him about three hours but the recovery cost him three times that. Why do we always have to learn the slow way that our bodies aren't power tools?

blair704d ago

And isn't that the truth in so many areas... way too many people think brute force is the answer when slow and steady just works better.