Monthly Archives: June 2013

Dead Sexy Window Trim

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So on this stage of the project, I went into this knowing nothing.  Absolutely nothing about window trim, or jamb extensions.  So I watched a bunch of youtube videos and read a bunch of articles.  This video in particular was the key to my success.  And the Guy totally looks like Brett Favre.

So, in two hours I measured, cut, built and installed the jamb extensions.  These are needed because my walls are 2×6″ construction and they installed vinyl windows which are like 2 inches wide.  So one must do something with that space.  I chose paint grade pine for this job because it was affordable, and if I made a mistake I was out like $5 for a new board.  I am super happy with the way they came out considering I had no clue what I was doing when I started.

Tomorrow I will finish the other two while the Wife primes them for paint.

I finished up the door trim.

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I got in a couple hours of work today before heading off to a meeting in Ashland.  It does seen strange that I only seem to manage about 3-4 hours of work on a weekend.  I keep thinking that I would get more time to work on the weekends but it never seems to happen.

Weekends always seem to be the days where I run around or spend half of the day doing errands.  I get way more work done during the week it seems but I suppose 5 days of 3-4 hours of work is a lot more that the 2 weekend days.

So we finished the door trim and the wife painted the squat box.  I had to re-adjust two of the doors before I put the trim on.  I am not sure if it was the humidity, temperature changes or the weight of the doors being on for a couple weeks but they shifted enough to start rubbing on the door frames.  I figured it was easier to fix that before I put the trim on that have to take it off to do it again.  Here is to hoping nothing changes requiring me to take the trim back off.