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Posted: Apr 12, 2007 12:37am
These are pictures jazzguy sent me and I posted for him.. thanks for sharing!!
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These pictures were taken as the project unfolded and no spackling or touch-up applied yet. I would like to have gotten the joints a little tighter but they don't look too bad from the floor, so I concluded that spackling would be able to hide most flaws and removing and reinstalling the pieces wasn't necessary.
We (my friend-helper and I) started at the entrance with the first piece, a 13 ft length, and quickly learned the difficulty of handling and positioning the molding. The pictures are numbered in the order the molding was installed.
#1--Our first corner. Doesn't look too bad in this view. An added difficulty was the corner curio cabinet we had to reach over. We used a stud finder and marked the location of each side on the tape and placed a piece of tape at the center of each ceiling joist.
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Posted: Apr 12, 2007 12:43am
#1a--A close-up of the joint. You can see by the tape guide markings that we didn't get lined up very well. This was the worst of the joints. Fortunately it is in a relatively obscure corner. Spackling to the rescue. We were working in a right-to-left direction.
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Posted: Apr 12, 2007 12:44am
#2--The first scarf joint about midway on the 23 ft. wall. The blue tape marks the wall stud and the ceiling joist. The separation of the two led to adding the backer block.
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Posted: Apr 12, 2007 12:45am
#3--Corner 2. We had a lot of trouble at the second corner and had to remove the molding after nailing it up and try again. Fortunately, nothing broke. The tape marks indicate the molding bottom from the gage block. Pencil marks indicate the 10 inch from the corner marking for the length measurement. The backer blocks were needed because this was the "parallel" wall.
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Posted: Apr 12, 2007 12:46am
#4--Corner no. 3. Looks like the molding was a tad high on the wall (note the tape marks) but most all the lines of the molding pieces match ed pretty well. More spackling.
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Posted: Apr 12, 2007 12:47am
#5--Scarf joint no. 2. The pieces were cut flat at 90 deg. with a 22.5 deg. bevel, as you suggested in your post on 3/3. We had a little trouble getting the joint closed but at least the molding lines matched. As an added difficulty we had to work around a recently hung valance. The long pieces were more difficult to handle than I expected and getting the joints to fit at each end led to more gaps than I would have liked. We did get the overcut pieces in the right direction, though.
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Posted: Apr 12, 2007 12:48am
#6--The final corner where we began. This one came out the best. Even the dentils lined up pretty well.
Caulking the ceiling gaps is yet to be done as is touch-up painting of the joint and nail holes spackling.
All the pictures have been resized to approx. 640x480. I think I scrambled the order when I attached the pictures.
jazzguy
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Posted: Apr 12, 2007 12:58am
All in all a pretty tough project.. dentil is not the easiest to do... as you now know.
Nice going JazzGuy
Hey here is a link for you:
http://www.tropicalglen.com/FA-Swing.html
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