Heh.

I'm not in the construction trades (my son is a drywaller), but I do a fair amount of 'home improvement' projects - which is to say: I often do a project twice; once, the 'wrong' way, then secondly, better.

I have poured concrete, built a wooden shed, laid sod, built a deck, patched holes in walls (teenagers, heh), and those kinds of home-dweller type projects. I am a rotten plumber. Power tools and I have a 'mutual-exclusion' clause in our relationship (I'm much better going slowly, with hand-tools).

In sum: I'm not much help to you, I think - but surely sympathetic. :)