Friendly advice
For some folks, giving advice to neighbors and friends about repairs is a near hobby. I have erred in this myself when a brother was building his home by a lake. Unless it targets the solution to a specific problem it is generally unhelpful or simply boring. Now, when an acquaintance plays the
role of "peanut gallery", I simply nod over and over until they depart. However, sometimes the trouble maker has a good point and I integrate it into my plans. I'll close with a semi-tangental story which may amuse the reader. One day some neighborhood kids, home-schooled in a religious sect, placed rocks from my garden onto the lawn which badly needed mowing. Luckily,  a friend installing our porch ceiling mentioned that some youth were "playing in the yard" that day. This and my mom's childhood direction to "always police the yard" alerted me to an alteration in the landscape. In the absence of these tips,  their rock "redesign" would have been catastrophic when I mowed!