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Old 04-17-2006, 11:25 PM   #21
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Just throwing this out there but Howmany of you caulk and putty your own trim when working for a GC. I under stand for a H/O but when I sub just the trim for a project I dont include caulk or putty. I would say that better that half of the trimmers in my area are the same way.
Of all the carps I've had the pleasure of following, only maybe 10% of them filled their own nail holes, or caulked the gaps. Out of that 10%, I wish 90% of them hadn't touched it. I'd much rather finish the wood myself, than sand out bad fill.
It's worse now that most use nail guns. Some of the trim I see looks like it was sprayed with a machine gun. Back in the days of swinging a hammer, much more care was put into how many nails were sunk, and where they sunk them.

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Old 04-18-2006, 06:56 AM   #22
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Of all the carps I've had the pleasure of following, only maybe 10% of them filled their own nail holes, or caulked the gaps. Out of that 10%, I wish 90% of them hadn't touched it.
That sounds just about dead-on from my end too
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I'd much rather finish the wood myself, than sand out bad fill.
That's it
No matter how you slice it, it's less time to do it right than sand out a bad job
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