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   CW | Sep 03, 2003 08:09pm | #1

   They look great, clean and crisp as compared to a corner board.  Could be a matter of personal taste.  I had an employee ask why anyone would choose a woven corner to a nice big board!

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   HeavyDuty | Sep 03, 2003 10:56pm | #2

   Window trim to the corner will look goofy. Go with the woven corner.

   Tom

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   Piffin | Sep 04, 2003 12:18am | #3

   I've done as small as about 2-3/4"

   Looks great, neat and crisp!

   Now - what did you do with that framer who wouldn't?

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   Excellence is its own reward!

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   Boxduh | Sep 04, 2003 01:14am | #4

   Pif, the framer and I are on good terms.  At price-up time, I gave him my CAD floor plans and some rendered images showing the walls and openings, plus all the roof truss detail with the scabbed on false tails and rake lookouts and barges.  No stairs or soffits were shown.  I did not bore him with a full plan set, and besides, I had changed the plans significantly by a.) trussing the roof instead of sticking it, b.) reconfiguring for 2x6 exterior walls instead of the 2x4 framing shown, and c.) doing a partial cellar only instead of a full basement.  I paid him for his time doing the funky stuff I did not show him when he bid it.  For the extra work, I kitted most everything up and they just spiked it up and hung it.  The stairs I built myself. 

   My question was for framing subs, asking what their "regular practice" was, in bidding work from a full plan set when dropped ceilings and stairs are shown.

   In my case, the staircase is built with 2x and plywood materials used for stringers and platforms, and "construction" treads and risers are screwed on until final finish, then we will trim them out by pulling the temps and putting on the hardwood, skirts, newels, balustrade, etc.  It is rough framing scope stuff in my past experience.

   I had previously built out in flyover land, where many builders are packagers, and sub everything, not having any carpenters or crews themselves.  Out there, the framing subs did everything in the job that was built with 2x lumber and plywood.  If stairs were straight runs, the framers framed 'em.

   Here, where I am now, most all builders wear tool belts, and have carpenters on their payrolls.  Many frame themselves, and there exists only one framing sub.  In working for most all these other can-do builders, he calls a lot of stuff "finish" because it gets picked up by his customers' crews after he has left and the building has been dried in.