Shoutout to the guy at the hardware store in Austin who saved my bathroom floor

So I was redoing my bathroom floor with those peel and stick vinyl tiles, right? I got about halfway through and realized the floor wasn't perfectly flat. There was this one spot near the toilet flange that had a tiny dip. I figured, 'eh, it's fine, the tile will stick.' Wrong. Two days later, my foot went right through a tile while I was brushing my teeth. It made this awful squishy crunch sound. I went back to the store, and this older guy in the flooring aisle saw my face and just said, 'floor patch?' He walked me over, got me a $14 tub of floor leveler, and showed me how to mix and spread it. Took an extra afternoon, but now the floor is solid. Anyone else have a tiny mistake that turned into a whole extra step?

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tara34513d ago

Oh man, I totally get that. I used to be the person who would just power through and ignore little problems like a floor dip. I'd tell myself it wouldn't matter, or that fixing it was too much work. But after having a shelf I put up rip right out of the wall because the stud finder was wrong, I learned my lesson. Sometimes that one extra step to do it right saves you from a huge mess later. What was the worst part, the cleanup or just the feeling of it failing?

graymiller13d ago

Wait your stud finder was wrong? I thought those things were supposed to be foolproof. That's honestly terrifying.