Or how to use yer brain and make mini wedges.
When I trimmed out this house a couple of years ago I didn’t expect the client to take up the carpet and put down a floating floor. Rather than take up the trim and redo it since it was anywhere from 1/8″-1/2″ off the floor I just cut and glued appropiate spacers. The tooth picks helped apply pressure while the glue dried. I did this for 14 openings and used less than 8′ of casing and 4′ of jamb material. Of course it’ll need paint but it would have anyway.
Edited 6/24/2006 10:22 pm by jagwah
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good thinking..
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
I am thinking of going into the toothpick shim business.
I figure the big boxes will like it. With just a little repackaging, say putting only 9 to a box and selling them at a unit cost of .30 each.
Most of the cost will be the instruction sheet that will come with them. Heck the instructions will probably have to be in several languages and have a half dozen pages of caveats. Wind up being more wood in the packaging. What a country.
The big boxes, with a little creative marketing, could mark them up and sell for over $5 per unit. After all nothing worth buying cost less than $5 at the big boxes.
>>>>Heck the instructions will probably have to be in several languages and have a half dozen pages of caveats.<<<<"Do not poke in eye".
Only slightly faster than the speed of stupid, since 1957.
Just for that reason use of these nano-wedges¯ may require OSHA certification.
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Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Tooth picks and golf tees (the natural kind) are in our "cosmetic" kit at all times...pluggin', shimmin', pickin' 'n grinnin' I need a dump truck, baby, to unload my head
Those toothpicks look to be about the size of pencils.
Only slightly faster than the speed of stupid, since 1957.
He's got big teeth.
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