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Jaeger_S2k
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 Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:08 pm Post subject: Wooops, Remember to go all the way to the floor |
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Utility room first fix and while painting I notice, when looking out towards the back door that I hadn't run my level or straight edge all the way down the wall. This left the board at the bottom of the door coming into the room.
Can I decorate it out? Who am I kidding? 
It'll have to come out and be fixed, but not the whole wall or board, I reckon I can blend in a part of the board and make it 'look' right.
Mark the size I'm happy with ...
Amputate the offending area...
Cut replacement board and feather the edges off.
Was a little too excited in feathering the board on the wall! 
Cemented the new board into place.
I'll continue with the finished wall later.
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Hoovie
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| Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 7:45 am Post subject: |
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This is probably a silly question, but what was wrong with it before? The wall is slightly off vertical?
BTW- These are the tiles that you were musing on the grouting lines on? They look very nice 
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Jaeger_S2k
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| Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 7:58 am Post subject: |
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The door is plum and the wall is plumish.
If you look at the door casing you'll see it gets thinner as you go down the wall. In the 'fixed' picture it's more even.
The original board hadn't been pushed into the cement enough and was running out from the wall. It's in the direct site of the main traffic route through the utility from kitchen to back door.
Was very obvious once I'd seen it although 'She who makes lumpy custard' didn't notice it.
A skirting would show it badly as there was little for the skirting to face to at the door casing.
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skiking
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| Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:01 am Post subject: |
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No wonder I only got 2 or 3 boards out of one bag of adhesive - I put loads on compared to you  |
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Hoovie
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| Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:34 am Post subject: |
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| Jaeger_S2k wrote: |
The door is plum and the wall is plumish.
If you look at the door casing you'll see it gets thinner as you go down the wall. In the 'fixed' picture it's more even.
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I can see it now - the difference is clear with the unpainted part of the door casing in view.
I guess it would have been one of those things that IF you didn't sort, no one would have known, but it would have bugged you every time you saw it
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Tryanything
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| Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:40 am Post subject: |
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Nice to see you noticed the mistake  and took the time to put it right instead of most peoples attitude, Oh that will do (bet you dont make the same mistake again)  |
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Jaeger_S2k
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| Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 10:37 am Post subject: |
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| Hoovie wrote: |
| BTW- These are the tiles that you were musing on the grouting lines on? They look very nice |
Cheers Hoovie.
But if you get down on your hands and knees, no?
OK yeah they look fine, the BOSS passed them off!
This little room has been a great learning area, not to be repeated in the kitchen!
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Hinton Heating
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nice rad bypass there! 
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