fernicarry
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I've been stripping the window recess in the master bedroom back to bare wood over the last few weeks. I'm sure the sheer tedium of this will be familiar to many.
How jobs grow to fill the time (not) available. This started out as just painting the outside of the windows at the end of last summer, progressed to painting all of the internal woodwork but I couldn't really stomach painting over so many other badly applied coats so stripping the lot. I then decided to have a look under the floor to try to work out why there was a step in the floor level just before the window, found the joist ends had all dropped by a rather alarming amount due to being barely connected to the lintel spanning the bay below so I've had to sister all of them and reattach them with hangers. That'll explain the big crack in the downstairs ceiling too. And for good measure since I've got part of the floor up I'm rewiring this room and adding a slightly more 21st century quantity of sockets not to mention removing several editions of the Daily Record (April 1988) from around the two (yes, for the whole room, both on the same wall) existing sockets. Also with the floor up it would be rude not to move the radiator too and reclaim some useful wall space. Then there's also the significantly larger than usual damp patch where the fireplace used to be after the utter soaking we got over the weekend. Someone should do something about that. The only silver lining being discovering quite a lot of very heavy lead sheathed cable under the floor which might make the job a little less cash intensive.
Anyway, back to the woodwork. The planted mouldings on what used to be the window shutters (now nailed in place, daren't try to free them up), have a corner bead at the thin end, one that curves all the way round and disappears under the moulding, if that makes sense. How should one finish this off? Obviously they were previously completely clogged with paint so it just looked like a right angled corner. I'd like to leave it with the curve disappearing into the shadow if possible but suspect its going to get clogged up again in places and look a bit rubbish.
The skirting mouldings are the same, corner bead at the top meeting the wall and corner bead at the bottom meeting the base board. The top one was filled with plaster and caulking squaring it off against the wall, the bottom one filled with paint. Should I try to keep both clear or is the edge of the bead intended to be filled to hide the join? Making those beads can't have been all that easy 150 years ago so I can't believe you are supposed to hide them away.
How jobs grow to fill the time (not) available. This started out as just painting the outside of the windows at the end of last summer, progressed to painting all of the internal woodwork but I couldn't really stomach painting over so many other badly applied coats so stripping the lot. I then decided to have a look under the floor to try to work out why there was a step in the floor level just before the window, found the joist ends had all dropped by a rather alarming amount due to being barely connected to the lintel spanning the bay below so I've had to sister all of them and reattach them with hangers. That'll explain the big crack in the downstairs ceiling too. And for good measure since I've got part of the floor up I'm rewiring this room and adding a slightly more 21st century quantity of sockets not to mention removing several editions of the Daily Record (April 1988) from around the two (yes, for the whole room, both on the same wall) existing sockets. Also with the floor up it would be rude not to move the radiator too and reclaim some useful wall space. Then there's also the significantly larger than usual damp patch where the fireplace used to be after the utter soaking we got over the weekend. Someone should do something about that. The only silver lining being discovering quite a lot of very heavy lead sheathed cable under the floor which might make the job a little less cash intensive.
Anyway, back to the woodwork. The planted mouldings on what used to be the window shutters (now nailed in place, daren't try to free them up), have a corner bead at the thin end, one that curves all the way round and disappears under the moulding, if that makes sense. How should one finish this off? Obviously they were previously completely clogged with paint so it just looked like a right angled corner. I'd like to leave it with the curve disappearing into the shadow if possible but suspect its going to get clogged up again in places and look a bit rubbish.
The skirting mouldings are the same, corner bead at the top meeting the wall and corner bead at the bottom meeting the base board. The top one was filled with plaster and caulking squaring it off against the wall, the bottom one filled with paint. Should I try to keep both clear or is the edge of the bead intended to be filled to hide the join? Making those beads can't have been all that easy 150 years ago so I can't believe you are supposed to hide them away.
