My house is about 10 years old. About half the door casing miters are held tight with what looks like staples on the edge. Do any of you use this technique? Is there a special tool to place these staples?
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Special tool with a special fastner...
I think you'll find that most here just use their pinners or brad nailers to counter edge nail to do the same job.. and a little glue in the joint...
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That's probably a cinch fastener (here's an example from Senco http://www.senco.com/pdf/catalog/n_clamp.pdf ), high-production trim crews sometimes use them, but they're very difficult to use without an exotic production environment (e.g. full clamping table/jigs).
Phill Giles
The Unionville Woodwright
Unionville, Ontario
I'd guess it was a prehung door, which means the factory put that trim together. And they probably use some $800,000 machine to do it. Either that or some $6/hour guy with the Senco gun.
MERC
You sure it isn't a $6/hour guy running an $800,000 machine?
If it wasn't for those $6 an hour guys, you would be paying $100 each for those hollowcore masonite prehangs you're buying, and $6.50 for lunch in a bag when Mr. SixBuxPerHour hands your supersized lunch out the drive thru window.
Yeah, my hats to the $6 an hour guys.
After all weren't we all 6 bucks an hour (or less) guys
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$4.40 in school. And I'm not that old.
Jon Blakemore
$1.30 an hour in college--for minding the front desk and keeping the girls from going upstairs in the boys dorm....
Now that oughta give ya an idea how long ago that happened, LOL....
Dinosaur
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keeping the girls from going upstairs in the boys dorm....
bet you were a really popular guy.
Yep--I had the 3am to 5am shift, so...I fell asleep quite a lot, LOL.Dinosaur
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Isn't that like getting a wolf to guard the chicken house?
Argh... may be not.
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For my casing, I've used a 1.5" brad nail nailed into the top and side to hold the casing tight. I did that all thru the upstairs of my house. This technique keeps the miters tight but not necessarily flush with each other...especially in my old house where all the walls are no longer flat.
For the downstairs (which I'll be starting soon), I'm using a thick enough casing to use biscuits in the miters. I figure that along with glue and fast setting glue should do the trick. The second to last issue of FHB has an article on this.
it's a prehung ....
either one side applied casing .. or a split jamb.
factory installed ...
and they're crap (the fasteners ... not your doors) compared to a few well placed nails and actually putting some glue in there ....
I wish they'd figure out a way to leave those little useless fasteners out ... about all they're good for is every now and then splitting the applied casing as ya lift the door into place ....
or maybe if the factory would just buy a little bottle of yellow glue ...
Jeff
Buck Construction, llc Pittsburgh,PA
Artistry in Carpentry
Like Jeff says, there crap. Glue and pin the corners, thats all you need.