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Spent a whole day on a single corner bead in an old house
I was working on a house built in the 1920s and the corner was so far out of plumb it was a joke. The framing was all hand cut and nothing was straight. I thought I could just muscle the bead into place, but that was a bad idea. It took me from 7 AM to almost 5 PM just to get that one corner right, shimming and cutting that metal bead piece by piece. Has anyone else had a corner fight them that hard in an old place?
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emery29025d ago
My record is six hours on a single window trim in a 1908 bungalow. The house won that round, I just signed the peace treaty.
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leewalker25d ago
My buddy spent a whole day trying to level one door in his Victorian. The frame was so twisted he finally just shimmed it and called it character. Some fights you just can't win.
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