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The siding guys were using 1 1/2" and sometimes 2" nails....
Has anyone else noticied the tendency of people to use the biggest nail they can find, regardless of the job? If they're attaching to 3/4 plywood, what do they really think that extra 1.25" of nail is actually doing? I recently had a nail-through-the-Romex repair because the H/O was using 10d finish nails to attach quarter-round molding to his baseboard. That must've been load-bearing baseboard-trim... [Linked Image]

-John