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  • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    21 hours ago

    I put on my big-girl pants and made another big go at it today.

    Here are all the details in case it ever helps anyone (or in case you get a curious itch, lol):

    photos of filling nails

    the finishing nails are sunk into the trim:

    so I put a little wood filler on the hole, like this:

    then wipe the excess so it’s flush with the trim:

    photos of gaps and caulking

    next steps were to fill gaps between baseboard and the wall, and between trim and baseboards, before pics:

    after caulking:

    My partner encouraged me to just trying to use caulk to fill the larger gaps of the baseboards that were attached with adhesive. I was hesitant, but I tried it out and it seems OK:

    It’s poor craftsmanship, but it would have taken an entire extra day or weekend just to figure out how to get the tension right to glue the top of that baseboard back to the wall, and I was able to fill it sufficiently with caulk. Hopefully it will be fine, esp. since it’s just in the utility room of a basement.

    The only step left is to give it a coat of white trim paint, which I’ll do another weekend.