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Wainscoting in the basement – the finale
Wainscot and walnut flooring.FINALLY…. ALL DONE!!!! If you want to start at the beginning, go here. This project is spread out over 18 blog posts.
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Wainscoting in the basement part 16
2 hours of filling nail holes and seams. Ran out of molding and caulking, so another trip to the hardware store. There’s about 15 ft left to install.
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Wainscoting in the basement part 15
Spent about 6.5 hours of cutting and installing the pine trim moldings for inside the wainscot boxes… all 32 boxes!
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Wainscoting in the basement part 14
About 2 hours of more sanding and painting. We have finished the entrance room. Really starting to look nice!
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Wainscoting in the basement part 13
About 3 hours finish sanding, caulking joints around window trim, more sanding and painting.
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Wainscoting in the basement part 12
Between yesterday and today I spent about 10 hours installing the window trim, applying two coats of filler, drying overnight between coats.
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Wainscoting in the basement part 11
Yesterday and today I spent a total of about 10 hours of cutting, glueing, nailing, installing and making a mess. The work is slowly starting to change the feel of the room. Weird how that works…or maybe its just me. 🙂
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Wainscoting in the basement part 10
Today I spent 2-1/2 hrs cutting and nailing in some more top and bottom wainscot trim and lining up where the vertical pieces will go. Most of the time was spent up in the workshop cutting out the other three bottom plates of the window boxes. You’ve only seen three windows so far but there is another window in an adjacent room that will receive similar trim work (but no wainscot).
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Wainscoting in the basement part 9
I had said previously that working with MDF is dirty business and its nasty stuff. I rigged up a high velocity fan and opened a window in a nearby room to provide air flow.
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Wainscoting in the basement part 7
Here is a close up picture of the store bought quarter round. As you can see it doesn’t fit. It was fine for the bead board panels that were 3/8 inch thick but this MDF is 3/4 inch thick so I need to make a similar profile molding but make it 3/8 inch wider.