I ripped out an old built in linen closet. The old one was little more than a door and two sides in a corner. It was poorly constructed and the door blocked the hall when open.
So I built a new cabinet to fit into the place of the old built in.
Finally got it in and the bloody wall is nowhere close to being straight. I’ve got a huge gap – two inches at the top. And the door jam it’s next to is way out of vertical.
Suggestions on how to cover the gap?
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Caulk.
<G,D&R>
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
-- Jack London
You trying to get Bob Vila's job or something?
That wasn't very nice of you.
You know that Bob took my job. And you know it still hurts to this day.
Do you look at yourself in the mirror when you shave ?
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
-- Jack London
I feel your pain... being ousted by BV would hurt in more ways than one.
Just had to go for the salt in the wound, didn't ya ?
Whyyyyy I aughta.....
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
-- Jack London
Maybe you could ease your pain becoming Martha Stewart's protege. She's probably looking for someone to smuggle poppy seed muffins to her on the inside. Then again, you're too sensitive of a soul to subject yourself to her draconian moods. Ah hell, where does one go after getting their star snuffed by Bob?
...centerfold for a Breaktime calendar maybe...
...product tester at a prophylactic factory...
...karaoke star in Yemen...
see, there's still an oyster out there for you. It's just waiting for you to let the Bob thing go...
Ummmm, Does the product tester at the prophylactic factory entail testing with for real nekkid women ???
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
-- Jack London
Ummmmm Luka .... It's a one man operation...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Ouch !
No thanks !
I'm sick up to here with that particular operation.
If there is no cute middle aged woman with a body that Ruebens would drool to piant, and a..... No. I am not going to do it. I am not going to reference the title of this thread...
Anyway, if there isn't a woman involved, I am not interested.
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
-- Jack London
You trying to say that dating yurself doen't get it any more...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Yes.
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
-- Jack London
Sorry Luka, I don't have the details. I need to find that matchbook cover that had it and another ad for doctorate degrees in physics (for only 19.95 btw) to get you the contact info...
If I'm reading this right.........you're trying to attach a square/plumb cabinet to a out-of square/plumb wall.
You have to adapt to the wall by blending the two where they meet.........you can do this many ways.....
From your description it sounds like I'd cut a tapered strip from the same wood to fill the gap...
Now you know why that ugly ol' closet was put there in the first place!
Not much to add here, but just for clarity's sake, lets use the words plumb (vertical), square (at right angles to one another), and level (horizontal).
Now you know what people who install cabinets have to deal with very often. Normally, a scribe molding is used to hide such a gap, but 2" is way extreme... Still, a very wide scribe mold (piece of small base?) would likely be the way to go.
Good Luck,
The cabinet is square.
The wall and the door jam are not plumb.
The floor is not quite level,
and I'm feeling dumb.
Shim the cabinet plumb...
cut tapered trim strips to cover the gaps...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
First: Get out the sawzall and cut the nails holding the sole plate of the out-of-plumb wall to the floor.
Next, get a piece of 1" rigid foam insulation about 2' x 1', and 2 pieces of ¾" ply the same size, and glue them together like this: Ply, ply, foam.
Next, get out a 12lb. sledgehammer or a 2-ton screw jack. You place the foam faced pad against the base of the wall you want to move, and smack the plywood side hard with the sledge until the wall is plumb. (Or, you find or create an immovable place to set the base of the screw jack against, and gently jack the wall to where you want it.)
Now toenail the soleplate back to the floor.
Door jambs are easier; cut the nails holding it in place, plumb up one side with shims, and fire a couple of 2½" finishers through the jamb and the shims into the framing. Now do the same on the other side, being sure to raise or lower the opposite jamb until the header is square. Do not nail off the header.
Now get out the gyprock compound and start repairing cracks and filling gaps.
If you're lucky, and good at working that abused puppy dog look, maybe DW will do the painting for ya....
Dinosaur
'Y-a-tu de la justice dans ce maudit monde?
what happens when you shear the k & t or the romex that is going thru the wall? wouldn't hurt to check for that sort of thing first.
james
Not to mention the gasline, the water lines, the drain lines, the HVAC ducting that is in this wall.
Or the wall that is running perpendicular to this one. Or that this might be an outside wall and just push it off the frame.
Or that this might be an outside wall and just push it off the frame.
Umm, not to be picky, but how many linen closets you know are installed in an outside wall...? <: )>
Dinosaur
'Y-a-tu de la justice dans ce maudit monde?
"how many linen closets you know are installed in an outside wall."
...well mine is.....
So, the wall that's not plumb is an exterior, load-bearing wall?
If that's the case, ignore my earlier suggestion about cutting the sole plate free and moving the wall till it's plumb.
Instead, start in the basement by constructing caissons out of 6x6's.... <G> :)
Dinosaur
'Y-a-tu de la justice dans ce maudit monde?
Ummmmm, heh, heh, ooops!
I suppose I shoulda specified that it's kind of a pre-requisite to mark utility runs before making those cuts. Thinkin inside my own head agin. Duhhhh to me....
Unless all runs are known with accuracy--not often true, especially in old houses--the best idea would be to slice open the gyprock below the top of the base trim and pop that off so all the stuff you don't wanna cut could be seen. The plate can be notched around pipes if necessary to allow for lateral displacement (depends on how much you need to move the wall). If it's not gyprock but plaster and lath, a very careful couple of cuts with a circ set real shallow will open up a 'vision port' just above the plate.Dinosaur
'Y-a-tu de la justice dans ce maudit monde?
Maudite bonne idée que de passer une lame de sawzall sous la bottom plate d'un mur non-portant. Bien entendu, il y a souvent des cables électriques, etc. Merci bien for the great idea.
...Seems like those French have a different word for everything
Voir ma réponse à James--il m'a poigné d'aplomb comme toi!
Dinosaur
'Y-a-tu de la justice dans ce maudit monde?
Je me doutais bien que tu ne varges pas sur un mur sans y jeter un coup d'oeuil au préalable. T'si-gi-dou.
Toi tu viens d'où, mon homme? Ton français, c'est pas tout-a-fait le quebecois de mon coin; mais je n'arrive pas à mettre le doigt là-dessus....
Plus qu'on bavard en français, plus que Luka se demand quessé quisse passe....Dinosaur
'Y-a-tu de la justice dans ce maudit monde?
<p><font color="blue">Toi tu viens d'où, mon homme? Ton français, c'est pas tout-a-fait le quebecois de mon coin; mais je n'arrive pas à mettre le doigt là-dessus....
Plus qu'on bavard en français, plus que Luka se demand quessé quisse passe....</font>
<p><font color="red">You you come d'où, my man? Your French, c'est not all-A-fact the quebecois of my corner; but I n'arrive step to put the finger on top.... More French qu'on talkative, more than Luka demand quessé quisse master key....</font>
<p>I'll politely ask that you refrain from putting your finger on top of my master key from now on.
I still say youse guys should get a room.
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
-- Jack London
That's a great translation there Luka, except that "mon homme" actually means "dude" rather than "my man". I say to you Luke, and to ALL, welcome to the World Wide Web, in English and in French.
Luka, up to this point, neither Dinausaur or I have poked fun at you, or at anyone else for that matter. So chill out dude. Be a good lad and drop the homophobic agenda before other Breaktimers start worrying about you.
de la ville de Québec, 'sti.
Edited 9/27/2004 11:59 pm ET by Pierre1
Bon ben, moi, c'est les hauts laurentides--Mont-Tremblant. Dans le temps, on était au fin fond du bois...mais la crisse de ville nous à ratrappée....
If Luka runs that through his web-lator, nous allons tous les deux crèvent riant....
Dinosaur
'Y-a-tu de la justice dans ce maudit monde?
Welcome to Breaktime, Piere1. Where you should pay attention to a few more posts before you start taking yourself too seriously.
I was looking for chains to yank, and yer the one who yelped.
;)
Talk to Dinosaur. LOL
Now we know yer buttons. Look out for Gunner !
:)
That translation came from Babelfish. A running joke.
Actually if I had been asked to tramslate "mon homme", myself, I would have said something like "home boy". Or "really big french fries".
Piere, I knew neither of you had poked fun at me.
But I poked fun at you. ;)
Homophobic, 'eh ? Oh man, I could have had such fun with this one.
LOL Welcome to breaktime, Piere. Where the men are men, and the sheep are worried !
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
-- Jack London
Roar!
Uh I don't think he knows this is a gay carpenters forum. Does he?Who Dares Wins.
That's the only reason we all put up with each other is'nt it?
CurlyHand Hewn Restorations Inc.
Restoring the past for the future.
;)
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
-- Jack London
Okay, I give...howdjadoodat?
Everytime I try to upload a sound or video file Prospero won't let me...not to mention being at least a meg or two which nobody on dial-up would ever think of opening....
Dinosaur
'Y-a-tu de la justice dans ce maudit monde?
I dunno TH.
The file was that size when I got it.
And I uploaded it the same as I do any picture file.
???
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
-- Jack London
>Curiouser and curiouser, said Alice....<
Dinosaur
'Y-a-tu de la justice dans ce maudit monde?
knew they were talking about me, ears started burning.....
moved plenty of walls just always checked on minor details ( read utilitys ) in advance.
james
They are not talking about you.
I think it's about time they got a room.
;)
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
-- Jack London
I think it's about time they got a room.
I think you've got a one-track mind....
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('course, now that I think about it, who doesn't?)Dinosaur
'Y-a-tu de la justice dans ce maudit monde?
The tapered strip of wood sounds like it would work. Don’t forget to look away each time you walk down the hall.