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Hot take: the carpet in that old hotel lobby in Abilene sold me on doing repairs instead of full swaps
Stayed at the Windsor Hotel in Abilene last weekend for my cousin's wedding and could not stop staring at the lobby carpet. It was 20 years old, worn down in the traffic lanes, but somebody had patched two burn spots so clean you had to get on your knees to spot them. Got me thinking about how many jobs I've quoted as full replacements when a good patch and a restretch would've saved the customer $1,500 or more. Any of you push repairs over swaps, or do you just give folks what they ask for?
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ray_hernandez3d ago
That line about getting on your knees to spot the patches really hit me because I've seen the same thing all over. My grandpa's old truck had a cracked dash he fixed with some vinyl and a heat gun, and that thing outlasted him. My neighbor sewed up his own sofa cushions with a needle and thread from the dollar store and you can't even tell. We live in a world that screams replace it the second something shows wear, but the stuff that lasts is the stuff somebody cared enough to fix. A clean patch on a worn carpet tells a story, like scars on an old dog. Half the trash in this country is just things people gave up on too early.
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