Mine got gradually worse over a few months and I kept chasing my spray technique thinking I was losing it. Swapped the float and the problem vanished overnight, so yeah check it for rough spots before you go crazy adjusting your gun.

Worth noting the $90 is per house but the callback costs way more than that once you pay a crew to roll a truck back out. Builders spec the thin stuff because it's the number they see on the bid, not the number they see a year later.

Felt this in my soul. I got cornered by a guy at a thing in Alpharetta who wanted to tell me about his fantasy football league for what felt like an hour, and I just stood there nodding like an idiot while my drink got warm. Started doing the same alarm trick after that and it honestly saved me. The weird part is once I started excusing myself, other people started doing it to me too and I didn't even care, so I guess we all just quietly agreed this is how it works now. My go to line is "I'm gonna grab a refill before they pack up" and then I just don't come back, works every time.