Woodwork – The Old Man and the Street http://www.oldmanstreet.com/blog The Trials and Tribulations of a 1912 Arts and Crafts Foursquare Thu, 22 Sep 2005 07:08:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.4 Caulk hides all wounds http://www.oldmanstreet.com/blog/2004/09/21/caulk-hides-all-wounds/ http://www.oldmanstreet.com/blog/2004/09/21/caulk-hides-all-wounds/#respond Wed, 22 Sep 2004 02:00:00 +0000 http://www.oldmanstreet.com/blog/?p=35 The Second Refinishing Guy came by today to give me an estimate for stripping and refinishing the woodwork. He noticed something that I had never noticed: Almost all the woodwork was caulked to the plaster.

Yes, you heard me. Almost all of the woodwork. Caulked. To the plaster.

Now when I was in the back closet in the basement, I noticed a half dozen tubes of DAP ALEX Painters Caulk, and I couldn’t figure out what the previous owner had been using it for.

Well now I know.

Stripping the woodwork is going to be just that much more fun.

On a side note, Second Refinishing Guy suspects that the wood panelling in upstairs foyer and on the staircase isn’t original. I suspect he may be right as it seems to have been installed on top of plaster as it’s almost flush with the other trim.

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