Robert Farmer
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Our house was damaged back in 2005 by Hurricane Rita. We contracted
out all of the necessary repairs- replacing fourteen roof rafters, several pieces
of decking as well as new shingles. Inside we had a lot of new drywall put up.
I decided to handle all of the interior trimwork. Naturally, we decided to re-
model beyond the necessary repairs. I installed seven new colonial style
doors in the house and decided to trim it out the doors and windows with
trim I made from 1x lumber rather than utilizing the trim that came on the
doors when we bought them. My problem is the fact that the door jambs are
not wide enough to span the width of the rough opening and a couple of the
rough openings are actually scissored in that one side of the rough opening
is not in line with the opposite side. I installed the door jambs plumb rather
than following the plane of the wall leaving gaps at the bottom of one side
and top of the opposite side. Some of the gaps are one quarter to three
eighths inches in width. In other cases the sides of the rough opening are in
the same plane but the door jamb doesn't isn't wide enough to span the full
width so I split the difference in putting the jamb in ending up with a small
gap between the jamb and trim on both sides of the door. I've gone to far
now to rip everything out and start all over again so it looks like I am going
to have to use an awful lot of caulk to fill in these gaps. I have a nice
shop filled up with all sorts of good tools and have built several pieces of
furniture for our house that my wife was very pleased with, but intalling the
trim is eating my lunch, hence the title of this thread. Do any of you guys
have the same problem as I do?
out all of the necessary repairs- replacing fourteen roof rafters, several pieces
of decking as well as new shingles. Inside we had a lot of new drywall put up.
I decided to handle all of the interior trimwork. Naturally, we decided to re-
model beyond the necessary repairs. I installed seven new colonial style
doors in the house and decided to trim it out the doors and windows with
trim I made from 1x lumber rather than utilizing the trim that came on the
doors when we bought them. My problem is the fact that the door jambs are
not wide enough to span the width of the rough opening and a couple of the
rough openings are actually scissored in that one side of the rough opening
is not in line with the opposite side. I installed the door jambs plumb rather
than following the plane of the wall leaving gaps at the bottom of one side
and top of the opposite side. Some of the gaps are one quarter to three
eighths inches in width. In other cases the sides of the rough opening are in
the same plane but the door jamb doesn't isn't wide enough to span the full
width so I split the difference in putting the jamb in ending up with a small
gap between the jamb and trim on both sides of the door. I've gone to far
now to rip everything out and start all over again so it looks like I am going
to have to use an awful lot of caulk to fill in these gaps. I have a nice
shop filled up with all sorts of good tools and have built several pieces of
furniture for our house that my wife was very pleased with, but intalling the
trim is eating my lunch, hence the title of this thread. Do any of you guys
have the same problem as I do?