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Lessons learned from the weekend.
1.) All home improvement projects take at least twice as long as anticipated.
2.) Wallpaper that was glued on in the 60s is a bitch to take off.
3.) The guys at Home Depot really do offer useful suggestions.
4.) Hydrochloric acid will eat through the mop in no time, but has difficulty with carpet clue on a concrete floor. Paint drops will be eaten, but a mark will be left.
5.) Safety goggles will inevitably fog up.
6.) It takes about an hour to get a noise complaint (from two floors down) when you're using a concrete grinder on a floor.
7.) Carpet pads installed in the 60s begin to disentegrate upon removal in the 00s.
8.) The Chevrolet Suburban is one of the more useful vehicles on the planet for home improvement projects.
9.) You'll never have to pay for food for a month if you help out a friend with their home improvement project.
10.) Things begin to look like the vision about two days into the project.
11.) I'm the nicest sister in the world. And he's in my debt big time.
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