Need to fill screw holes in window frame so I can "re-screw"
tracey_b
7 years ago
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Comments (9)If the gap is not more than 1-2 inches I would install the new cabinet and fill the gap with Easysand. If you need some backer, strips of foam insulation can be wedged in the gap. I had a renovation on an old house that had a medicine cabinet mounted on the wall surface. I decided to simply recess the existing cabinet (why spnd money on a new one, the old one was in good shape). After removing it and cutting through some plaster, I found the original recess had been filled with bricks (on edge) and plastered over long ago. It took about an hour to clean everything up and put the old cabinet in the recess. Some Easysand20 filled the perimeter gaps....See MoreI now have 6 or so holes on the south wall of my closet!
Comments (10)thx for the thumbs up on it idie! I just gotta get to lowe's soon. planned on going last wk and didn't make it there. I'd sure better this wk! I did manage to get the 2 lower shelves up in my bdrm closet today. it was rough going tho. It took about 5 1 x 2's to finish it. 3 tossed to the wayside with a screw stuck in 'em. couldn't get them to back out. will leave that for the 'strong man' to deal with. When I looked closer at them it seems they are from a harder wood. why didn't I pay attention to that when I bought them? ugh. i thought they all came from the same stack. i did have 2 of softer wood that I could get up on the back wall. One side of each ended up with just a partial support underneath. I'll change that out when I get 2 longer pieces to put in. I could have had them today if I weren't chicken to run the saw. It looked really great to have those 2 shelves up in there. that gives me 16.5 ft of storage space (the floor and on each 5' plus shelf). I think I'll put a metal brace under both of them at about the middle point - just to be safe. Tomorrow I'll double check what I'll need to finish up the shelves and make a new list - including a stud finder....See Morethinking about tackling the kitchen...fill that hole!
Comments (2)Your rooms really look promising, Fori. It's going to be very nice. If you're really removing the fireplace, I'm imagining a very simple, clean wall separating the kitchen and open room, which would have your doorway with pocket door to one side. Where the counter runs behind the wall, there would be 1 or 2 openings in it rising from the counter itself to the ceiling or that ?beam? up there--unframed, very clean and streamlined. There are various kinds of sliding devices that could be hidden in the wall, or even the counter, to close it/them off. The wall would be left solid in places where it was desirable to hide some of what's going on in the kitchen, open elsewhere for all the reasons it's nice to be open. I've seen examples of this on websites, including Houzz, and really liked some of them a lot for their elegance and function, ideally designed almost as a sculptural element with careful eye to proportion and placement. The background on the opposite wall is composed to be part of the picture, of course. Are you sure you don't want to salvage the fireplace, though? The kitchen seems to have good space. Is the LRM too narrow with it? The bulk of the fireplace looks as if it performs the same function the solid wall I was describing above would--hiding some of what's going on. The stove could slide down behind it and a corresponding wall be built at the outer end of the counter, leaving the center (or?) open. Also, if you pulled the wall off behind it, you might find some additional inches there. Or not. :)...See MoreFill gap between window and frame
Comments (10)I tried to investigate the warranty option, but we did not build this house (we r 2nd owner) and Lincoln windows says they cannot find any record of windows sold to prior homeowner (probably because the window sale was likely to home builder who went out of business) so Lincoln won't help me out. Windows are double pane but 10 years old. The real problem is the bad decision someone made to install wood windows in Texas where it is just too hot and humid for wood windows to stand up to the climatic conditions. So I am stuck with trying to keep them in as good of condition as possible. It is just way too expensive for us to replace all the wood windows, esp since we dont plan to bein this house after we retire in a few years....See Moretracey_b
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