Performance of finger-jointed mouldings
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I’d like some feedback on the long-term performance of finger-jointed paint-grade wood trim. I lived in an apartment years ago that had painted finger-jointed clamshell casing around the doors. The fingerjointing had telegraphed through the paint. My local millwork supplier sells East Coast Mouldings. A lot of their paint grade material is fingerjointed. The supplier says telegraphing is more likely to occur if I finish with latex paints (my preference). Thoughts? Advice? Thanks in advance.
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I install a goodly amount of FJ primed trim, and its like anything else. The good stuff will be fine, and the cheap stuff will telegraph. My yard stocks trim from Consolidated Mouldings, and I've had very little problems with them.
I think the older FJ trim did have problems with telegraphing. A lot of that was because it was sold unprimed.But that seems to be pretty well taken care of. If the wood has a good prime on it, top-coating with latex shouldn't be a problem.
If you're really concerned about the joints telegraphing, you could prime again with an oil primer, or some B*I*N.
He is giving you a disclaimer from the beginning. I don't know that brand, but his warning is not without meaning.
The better finger joint products have come to the point that telegraphing is not an issue. But I don't know of any high quality ones that do a clamshell molding. Just the style itself is is a claim to low grade style and materials where every mill has to compete on price. You won;t find the high grade mills competing there. No intent to insult your choice or your budget, but simply stating the factrs on that.
If you have telegraphing, sand and recaot a coupld times and it should find a way to hide behind the paint. You could also re-prime firsat wioth a shellac based primer-sealer to prevent the wood from absorbing moisture out odf the latex if that is your choice.
We use oil - BM Satin Impervo
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Sorry, didn't mean to imply that I will be using clamshell - I actually hate the stuff and I'm redoing our trim to get rid of it. I'm trying to avoid causing myself a maintenance headache down the road. I was going to backprime the trim before installation - the shellac sealer sounds like a good idea.
My bad.
If you are upgrading, try taking a look at Windsorone moldings. See if they are available near you. None better. My painters love to work over them!http://www.windsorone.com/moldings/classic/default.asp
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