Four days after I padded and stretched a berber with just a knee kicker in my own rental property, it was already bunching by the baseboards on the west wall. That stuff is stiff plastic yarn bonded to a backing that doesn't give much at all. The knee kicker only pushes maybe 2 inches of carpet at a time while a power stretcher grabs a 6 foot span and locks the whole thing down. You probably got it tight initially but the tufting relaxed back overnight because you couldn't get enough tension past the first couple feet. Save yourself the redo and rent the proper tool next time, it's like ten bucks for the day.

Respectfully, it's usually user error and not the oven that's wrong.

@grant.jade is dead on about those callbacks dropping off. I've been watching the same thing on sites here and it is night and day difference in the heavy storms we get now. The membrane just makes more sense for how unpredictable weather has gotten.

Hold up, are you actually trying to argue that doing something hard and not seeing immediate results is pointless? Look man, 500 miles is no joke and sure, your knees hurt and you ate more pizza, but maybe the point was never about fitness changing overnight. I mean, when I started trying to do longer rides last year, my times were awful and I felt like garbage, but after a few months I could climb hills without dying and I wasn't out of breath carrying groceries. Sounds like you're just mad because you expected a magic pill instead of putting in the boring, consistent work that actually builds endurance over time. Plenty of people brag about hitting 500 just to post on Instagram, but the real win is that you proved to yourself you can do it even when it sucked, which is way more valuable than any fitness tracker data.

Figure out what the small stuff is doing before you jump in.