A spilled soda showed me why we tape off eating areas
In my experience, I was finishing a bedroom install when a client's kid knocked over a full soda onto the new carpet. It soaked right into the seams before I could react. Your mileage may vary, but now I always use masking tape to mark a clear no-food zone for clients. Has anyone found a good way to politely set those ground rules? Take this with a grain of salt, but it saved me a lot of hassle later.