margaretc42•6d ago

I was at the hardware store yesterday and heard a guy telling his buddy to just 'mud over' a soft spot in the wall

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hernandez.gavin6d ago

Wait, why would you just cover that up? You gotta find out what's making the wall soft first, or it'll just get worse.

flores.mark6d ago

Exactly... that's how you get mold.

grantnelson6d ago

Hear this kind of thing all the time and it drives me nuts. It's not just walls, it's a whole mindset of covering up the real problem instead of fixing it. Flores.mark is right about the mold, but it's bigger than that. You see it with cars, relationships, even at work, where a quick fix just lets the rot set in deeper. People hate the short term pain of dealing with the actual cause, so they slap some mud on it and hope it holds.