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I am so fucking fed up with the quality of materials at craft stores, hardware stores, online retailers, just all over.
Flat craft wood pieces used to be carvable, cutable solid wood. Not good wood at all or anything but today- laminate layers chip and flake and you can't get a square shape. Then the paint or stain soaks layers apart. WTF.
Can't go to Lowes or Home Depot and find ANYTHING in any bin related to it's size or material correct. Not a single piece of flat or rod stock is marked correctly.
I watched a blanket enthusiast at Michaels straight pull yarn apart by hand out of bundles.
Lumber isn't even close to straight in big pieces, and FULL of knots.
Blacktop is fully a stage rougher than it used to be with top and fine binder being respectively in real terms unscreened top binder and rough bonded bed.

Godamnit I hate this cheapshit "technically real" materials market all over.
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Welcome to the decline.
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>>3012890
the materials sold to you are adequate to the building standards you currently have
when your house is built from dogshit materials, dogshit materials are on the market too
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>>3012907
building quality is way up from the 60s thru 00s. the boomer era builds are fucking trash because houses werent meant to last as rothschild loan assets
low strength crumbly mostly sand concrete entranceways
1 nail per stud
alum romex and undersized elec services
pressboard wall facings and undernailed roof sheeting
no insulation behind t1-11
trash fixtures and faucets
>but hurr durr no stranboard was used
yah they used worse pressed sawdust particleboard
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>>3012941
where i live "nail in the stud" is considered as no building standards at all, but you do you king
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>>3012942
>t. r0.3 cinderblock walls and washing machine in the kitchen



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