A cheap move? @seanperry, you're just trying to justify your own guilty conscience and it's not working. The author basically pulled a "get out of writing jail free" card and called it a blog post. Next thing you know, characters will be resolving plot points with a quick trip to the hardware store.

Phoenix heat is brutal for mix time, next time grab some retarder from the supply house or toss a bag of ice in the water to slow it down. A cold joint that small usually just needs backer rod and caulk instead of grinding if it's not structural. Did you at least keep the slab wet while you were chasing that repair?

I scored a brass floor lamp at a thrift store for $8 once and the shade had this weird brown water stain that looked like a crime scene. I swapped it for a cheap white drum shade and suddenly my apartment looked like I had my life together instead of like I was living in a college dorm. My lamp collection is honestly just a graveyard of bad shade decisions at this point. Makes me wonder what other people are hiding under awful lamp covers.

Apply that logic to wiring too.

Did you seal the tile backs first? @faiths12