If only the person who did this ceiling had their tools even half as well calibrated as I do

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• Soulphite@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Try your best, caulk the rest.

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  • Iconoclast@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Can’t caulk as it needs to be removable. Got to install trim on my trim.

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    • Klox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Looks the ceiling sagged a bit. Probably started straight.

      And why can’t you caulk? Trim would be more durable, but caulk should also be fine. But you are expecting to remove these cabinets without demoing in the future? Why does it matter if there’s some demoed trim with caulk on it?

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    • krashmo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Caulk is removable

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    • thenextguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yo dawg, we heard you liked trim…

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  cut straight.

  Well there’s your problem! Unless you’re prepared to skim coat and flatten the ceiling, you’ve got to scribe your trim to it (and even then the result will be “less bad,” not “good”).

  You can’t do trim on trim because it’s too much ornamentation for those modernist cabinets.

  This is a perfect example of what folks often don’t understand about modernism: they think it should be cheap because it has simple shapes without fancy ornamentation, but they don’t realize the ornamentation his all the crimes. To do modernism right you have to have precision instead, and that actually costs more than fancy trim.

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  Frankly, the drywalled needs to be called back in, because he didn’t understand the assignment.

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  • flandish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    would another scribed trim like a shoe work? it’ll thicken the trim above the cabinets, but be the scribable piece.

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      A shoe molding is thin enough that it could bend and wouldn’t need to be scribed (which is the point of it). It would effectively hide the imprecision, but it would diminish the modernist aesthetic.

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  • tyrant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Lots of the time scribed material looks worse than a gap. I agree, bring back the guy to fix it

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• Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There is no other option than to simply tear down the whole house and build a new one.

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  • gedfromgont@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Nuke the entire house from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

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• DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Wood filler and paint make me the carpenter I ain’t.

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• NABDad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The DIY’ers who owned my house before me were very confident in their ability and proud of their accomplishments*.

  They shouldn’t have been. Inside corner trim cut at a 45° with the gap filled with wood filler. Chair rail molding installed in the dining room with up to a quarter inch gap between the molding and the wall.

  Of course, I’ve had hardly any better luck hiring professionals. It seems like no one has any logic anymore.

  To a certain degree, some screwups add to the character of the house. A closet door frame noticeably out of square becomes quaint when the finish carpenters match the odd angles perfectly when cutting the trim.

  * Neighbors who live next door told us about the previous owners bragging about the work they did.

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• spacehulk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Add a piece of quarter circle?

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  • Iconoclast@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah I’ll do something like that. I’m doing the baseboards here aswell so already have my mitre saw and finishing nailer at hand.

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• normalentrance@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Are the cabinets level? This whole kitchen looks off.

  Caulking around the large cracks and some matching paint would make it look much better.

  If this was professionally done I’d call them back and have them fix it. Seems like craigslist level workmanship.

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