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This is probably an age old post, but I’m fitting a door casing into an opening where one room is an addition built some time ago over the porch. When the room was built, they didn’t take the cedar shakes off, they just put firring strips over them and hung the drywall. So now the thickness of the wall is greater than normal. Well i put a pine casing in and discovered that the drywall is bowed as you go from top to bottom. I’ve enclosed a pic. At the top of the casing, the drywall goes maybe a quarter inch past the casing, but down towards the middle it is about an inch. Now I’m baffled as to how to fit the moulding around it. If there were slight differences, I could shave the drywall, but this is too much. My first thought is to get 10 inch wide casings and rip them to the correct width (which still doesn’t correct the bowing problem, the casing would then extend past the drywall at the top). Problem is I don’t own a table saw. Any advice or tricks of the trade? The guy who did the original work filled in the gap with automotive filler. Thanks in advance.
Jon Byrd
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This is probably an age old post, but I'm fitting a door casing into an opening where one room is an addition built some time ago over the porch. When the room was built, they didn't take the cedar shakes off, they just put firring strips over them and hung the drywall. So now the thickness of the wall is greater than normal. Well i put a pine casing in and discovered that the drywall is bowed as you go from top to bottom. I've enclosed a pic. At the top of the casing, the drywall goes maybe a quarter inch past the casing, but down towards the middle it is about an inch. Now I'm baffled as to how to fit the moulding around it. If there were slight differences, I could shave the drywall, but this is too much. My first thought is to get 10 inch wide casings and rip them to the correct width (which still doesn't correct the bowing problem, the casing would then extend past the drywall at the top). Problem is I don't own a table saw. Any advice or tricks of the trade? The guy who did the original work filled in the gap with automotive filler. Thanks in advance.
Jon Byrd