filling nail holes on your trim, do you?
I’ve been running alot of crown these days and I always caulk any seems along the ceiling and wall. However I usually leave the nail holes for the painter or customer to fill. Some guy gave me heat about it the other day, being that I do the caulking, he figured I should fill the nail holes too. What do you guys do?
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It depends on the agreement between you and the painter. I use to always fill them and caulk. Now, most of the time I do neither. If the painter is good, he or she will want to do it, because they will want the finish job to be theirs.
I'm like you.
When I run crown in an existing home, I usually caulk the wall and ceiling joints, but I don't fill the nail holes. On new construction, I generally don't caulk.
Gotta leave something for the painter to do.
Years ago, I got yelled at by a painter for filling the holes. Something about using the proper filler for different paints. Since then, its the painter's problem.
my painter would shoot me if I used caulk. #1 - that's his job and it can make his work look good or bad, depending...
#2, the wood should be primered before any caulk touches it.
also - if you are doing part of the paointer's job, you should do all of it and fill the holes, sand and prime too
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my painter would shoot me if I used caulk. #1 - that's his job and it can make his work look good or bad, depending...#2, the wood should be primered before any caulk touches it
I was redoing a porch once apon a time and my helper got there ahead of me, I had to stop and get some material, when I pulled up he was standing their as proud as a peacock, he had caulked all the joints on the unprimed wood with that damned polybutle caulkiing(I think NP-1 was the brandname), man I was so pizzed, all I could do was hand him a putty knife and give him the day to learn a valuble lesson!
Doug
Work it out with the painter. Some painters prefer to do all of the caulking, filling and sanding so they're in control of the final appearance.
My painter friend has told me several horror stories about having to re-do someone else's work so he could get a finished job that met his standards. He says (and I agree), that if a customer sees a blemish, they'll "blame" the last person who touched it - lol.