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| So I found this beautiful 'bargain' door on craigslist, to replace my old & beat up, leaky front door. This turned in to tearing down a wall, ripping up the entry tile & replacing it, moving electrical, repairing the hardwood floor, & of course I need to re-paint the entire living room & entry & replace some of the baseboard & crown molding.
Since the olde baseboard & CM are truly fugly, I decide it's time to replace those as well. First step: remove the old baseboard. Trying to carefully remove the old baseboard & not ruin the wallboard behind it, & it is NOT wanting to come off easily....
Yeah, that worked....& I find out why it's not coming off easily....Not only is there no wallboard behind the baseboard, the baseboard is actually a 1x6 that the wallboard is sitting on top of. See the 100-yr old wallpaper covering the original wood walls?
I was hoping to re-texture the hidden wallboard, & then install much shorter baseboard, but in order to do so, I now need to patch in a new piece of wallboard first. All the way around the living room. Either that or find some 6" baseboard & tack in something to even out the wall. *Sigh* I should know by know that there's a hidden surprise behind everything I try to do in this house!!!! Thanks for listening - just needed some understanding folk to rant to.... |
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- Posted by lukkiirish (My Page) on Thu, Oct 23, 08 at 16:18
| uuuuggghhhhh...that sucks. Sometimes it doesn't seem fair, bet it will look lovely when it's done. If it were me and I could get enough of it from behind the fake wall, I'd frame a square of the wallpaper and hang it. Once you're house is finished it will remind you of how far you and your home have come! |
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| gmta lukkiirish :) Not this wallpaper, but I do have a piece from earlier in this process - still attached to the wood as well! I was making a dump run, & had that piece in my hands & realized it was a keeper :) I have a number of objects that I refer to as "basement art" - stuff that has no place in my home in the public eye, but much too wonderful to toss. The walls in the basement are filled with them, & they always make me smile :) |
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| How old is your home? You might be throwing away what others want. |
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| gammyt I am a recycler born of recyclers, & I re-use everything possible & look for used whenever possible. Believe me - if I'm taking it to the dump it's because no one wanted it for free! House is a shade over 100 yrs old. & it goes under the category "Old", not "Historical" lol |
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| Moonkat - the house I grew up in was built during the post WWII boom (1948). I remember some of the shoddy techniques my Dad found when he took on repairs with that house. I also remember learning lots of "new words" during that time. Good luck with your house. |
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- Posted by energy_rater_la (My Page) on Sun, Nov 2, 08 at 11:23
| Found some suprises behind my floor moldings also.. open walls, 6" baseboards hiding a 4" crack. I didn't get the new baseboards because I was off on a quest to find the most effective and efficient way to seal them. This 'diy charmer' is behind every baseboard interior and exterior wall ... in my house. Thankfully it is a small house! I truly get your frustration. Having never thought about Best of luck..and the old wallpaper is kind of pretty. Glad |
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- Posted by bill_g_web (My Page) on Sat, Nov 8, 08 at 13:39
| Mooncat99 - You must be in N. Cali. - That sure looks like old redwood you're tearing off there - nice stuff and at 100yrs of age, it's likely old growth. With an old house, you've gotta love the process - and have a little cash lying around. |
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| lol bill g - you nailed it! (so to speak) Just trying to drive a nail (the old fashioned way) into some of these walls is tedious. I cut the new baseboard with my handy little Stanley miter box, not too bad, but it took me the better part of a day! So I decided to have my GC's guys do the crown molding. Then got the bill from them for their last month's work, & decided I could do the CM myself. So I've just bought a used miter saw, & now I'm looking for a nail gun. I'll learn to work elegantly with this old growth wood yet! |
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