What a pain!

[TBaGZ]

The guy I bought the house from was suppose to finish trimming the bathroom in the basement before he left. Well his idea of trimming the floor was to put that cheap ass rubber stick on crab that some people use in there kitchen. Well needless to say that it all peeled off the walls. So now I am putting up some wood trim before I rent the house out to my sister cause I am moving to florida in a couple weeks. Well needless to say that it is being a total PITA because the floor aint flat and the walls aint square. O well eff' it, I am just going to put it up and caulk the seams and paint it.

Put me in a machine shop with some metal and I will hold things to .0001" give me a saw and some wood... ya better add caulk to that list! lol

 

[Gonz]

There is certainly a fine art/skill to putting up trim, as far as I'm concerned. I've tried it before, and no matter how careful I was, my 45's never quite lined up right. And especially in a bathroom where you've got stuff to go around and sometimes cramped quarters to install it.

Now as far as a machine shop goes, I'm slowly learning how that goes as well. My father in law owns a machine shop about an hour from us, and my kid loves hanging out there.

 

[gtphale]

Just shim your corners to even up the walls. Even if you cut your wood to a 45 the wall may be a 98. Or you could measure the angle of your corner and cut it to that. But shims are much easier.

 

[TBaGZ]

Yeah I put up crown molding in the dinning room last year and i mitered right to the angle and then used a coping saw on the back to get them to line up nice but I still used a little bit of caulk and it came out looking good. I just don't have the time or desire to do the bathroom. lol

 

[jgohlke]

The first rule of fine carpentry is that most houses are not very square, level or plumb.

In other words, you cut if just fine, the house/wall/floor is off!

The 2nd rule of fine carpentry is that if you have cut the same piece more than 3 times and it's still too short/crooked/whatever, then it's time for a new, much larger and more expensive tool.

The third rule of fine carpentry is that after dealing with your crappy, out of plumb/level/square house and buying thousands of dollars worth of new tools, your cuts are still off...then the wood has absorbed too much moisture and it's time to smoke a cigar while the wood dries out a bit (most places, that's sometime in early Spring....).

Good luck and watch those fingers!

 

[TBaGZ]

Well it's all done and looks pretty decent. Now I have to do the other thing I hate and am not good at....... Painting! Might as well put a fresh coat up on the walls too while I am at it.

 

[Gonz]

Well, you'll get no sympathy there. Painting, I believe, is relatively easy. Just buy good paint, like Sherwin Williams, and a good trim brush. For all the painting I've done (as a homeowner on 4 houses) I've never been able to cover in one coat regardless of what the paint can says. And if you try to cover in one coat, then two weeks after the fact you'll start noticing tiny pinholes where the paint didn't cover, but now it's so much more work to re-do it that it never happens.

 

[TBaGZ]

Yeah I always buy good materials. I like to use Behr paint from Home Depot it covers pretty good but I still usualy do 2 coats. I just don't like to do it lol