Painters tape cabinet hardware won't cut it, I need help (still)
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Comments (4)Wildlife, I've also had this problem and have "pressed the tape edge down" to try to avoid this. Still it didnt always work. Recently I've seen it twice on HGTV where they say to paint the edge of the tape before painting the wall, it is supposed to help stop the paint from bleeding under the tape....See MorePut painter's tape on cabinets- opinion on pull sizes in new kitchen?
Comments (13)Six inch on all drawers and doors except for the large drawers. Would use one 8" centered on drawer. I am advising that because of having just redoing my small kitchen. Was going to put two small pulls on big drawers, but a professional cabinet guy advised to use the larger handle; he said that normally when people are opening a drawer with two pulls, they will use only one pull because they have something in one hand and can't use both hands. He advised that this type opening with one hand would eventually cause a "warp" in the drawer. So your husband is right about that. I considered using knobs, but decided I like the look of all pulls the best. Pulls on doors are in vertical position, pulls on drawers are in horizontal position. It really looks good. Would post a pic, but the kitchen is still in a mess....See Morehelp!! new cabinet drawers won’t open
Comments (61)I told you at the beginning that you hired a hack. Nothing has changed my mind about that. It’s just reinforced it. You lied to yourself about the job on the front end. You jumped all over a TANSTAAFL “deal” that was too good to be true. You didn’t even bother to do your due diligence, or you’d have found the lapsed license. And probably a whole lot more. Even if your kitchen is smaller than the average 12x14 space that costs 63K to redo for a mid range project, $6700 is about 20K short of where you should be for labor. That’s another warning sign that you ignored. When something is way to cheap to be real, you’re not getting real. You’re getting the fake Rolex from the guy in the trench coat in the alley. You ignored all the warnings. It’s why you are where you are at now. If the complaint is eligible for small claims court, good. You won’t need to hire a lawyer beyond a couple of hours of a basic consult. But you have zero documentation for anything to consult about. That’s not good. You probably need to chalk this up to a semester of college tuition in What NOT to Do When Hiring a Contractor. If you learn something from it, the tuition wasn’t wasted. If you didn’t learn, and keep trying to find something for nothing, then you’ll just get scammed over and over....See MoreNew oven and drawers won’t open, cut drawer faces?
Comments (64)Get better pics than the ones you have now. A pet peeve of mine is how terrible a lot of realtor.com photos are. Yours were fair, but not really good. My realtor took some excellent photos. He was able to get the bathroom in one shot, even. They really emphasized the advantages of the kitchen (even though are pine site built from the 70’s). He brought a tripod and the camera talked to his tablet so we could instantly see the pics. He had a fairly wide angle lense, but it didn’t create that curve you sometimes see in realtor photos....See MoreRelated Professionals
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