Man my hands are cramping just reading this, right there with you on that recovery time.

yeah 14 times is brutal. what i started doing was giving them 3 totally different directions right off the bat so they can pick a lane before we dig into details. i also tell them upfront that after the third revision i charge for extra rounds, that usually makes them think harder about what they actually want. saved me from a lot of those infinite loop situations.

Man I used to swear by those soft bristle brooms for finish work... thought anything stiffer would mess up the surface. A buddy of mine kept telling me to try a medium stiffness polypropylene broom but I never listened. Then one day I grabbed the wrong one out of the truck and same thing happened to me. The lines just cut through cleaner and the drag was way less noticeable. Now I keep a stiffer broom in my rig for the second pass on driveways. Really changed how I think about broom finish prep.