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I’m wrapping up some baseboard trim around an old crooked house. What’s the conventional wisdom for making the trim meet the wall? Where the wall waves should I nail the heck out of it and make the trim conform to the contours of the wall? Or: should I let the trim lie where it lies and chalk and paint the spaces where the trim is proud of the wall?
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In a perfect world...run the base straight, mask it off and skim coat the wall to the base.
If it is not too bad, caulk and paint. I think wavy base looks funny, but I look at that stuff closer than most people.
Yeah, keep the base straight and either add mud or caulk it. That will catch your eye much less than wavy base.
i just trimmed a less than perfect house myself. the base board was a 1x8 with a bead taken out of the top edge as well as a slight round over. instead of using a single piece for this i used scrap rippings, and ran them through the router with my bead. then i ripped them in a table saw to the thickness of the router bit countour. when installing you can push the skinny decorative ripping all the way back tight against the imperfect wall, compensating for any waves. all the imperfections in the wall are hidden under the decorative bead. :) because the floor was not perfectly level we also installed a shoe moulding.
sometimes it's easiest to produce the best final product by designing the trim around the buildings flaws, if that makes any sense.