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my wife, daughter, and i recently moved into a new house in las vegas, nv. i don’t want to step on any toes, but the trim work, and carpentry here in general, is about the worst i have ever seen. that is another topic all together, but my wife and i hope to slowly replace the baseboard trim, add window trim, repaint, etc. to make this house into a “home.” I’m looking for a book that would pass on some good tricks for trimming. i’m an experienced woodworker, but haven’t done much house work. looking for tips on things like replacing baseboard with carpet in place, sucking trim in to walls grossly out of flat and heavily textured, maybe a book oriented towards remodeling would be better. i had thought about taking a finish carpentry class at unlv, but don’t even know if they would have a trade school, and i work full time anyway. do you guys have any ideas about books, or should i just go for it, tear stuff out then figure it out? thanks in advance…
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Finish Carpentry by William P. Spence from Sterling books is a good one. Taunton also offers two good ones. I can't recall the titles and someone has cleaned off my desk so I can't find them right now. (My last place of sanctity violated!) But they are as good or better then Spences. Non of them realy show how to trim around bad work like your talking about. But a little common sense should take care of that. I'm doing a living room for my boss right now that is carpeted and I'm just keeping the baseboard snug to the carpet and using a level to keep it looking decent. Good luck
*trim carpentry by craig savage, is the title. you can find it on the fhb site look for books for homebuilding. it is a very good bood on installing various types of trim. savage has a companion video also. savage demonstrates most of the techniques in his book.
*Yep that's the one. Excelent book.
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my wife, daughter, and i recently moved into a new house in las vegas, nv. i don't want to step on any toes, but the trim work, and carpentry here in general, is about the worst i have ever seen. that is another topic all together, but my wife and i hope to slowly replace the baseboard trim, add window trim, repaint, etc. to make this house into a "home." I'm looking for a book that would pass on some good tricks for trimming. i'm an experienced woodworker, but haven't done much house work. looking for tips on things like replacing baseboard with carpet in place, sucking trim in to walls grossly out of flat and heavily textured, maybe a book oriented towards remodeling would be better. i had thought about taking a finish carpentry class at unlv, but don't even know if they would have a trade school, and i work full time anyway. do you guys have any ideas about books, or should i just go for it, tear stuff out then figure it out? thanks in advance...