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   Shep | Oct 22, 2007 04:36am | #1

   What, ya bored on a Sunday night?

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   mike_maines | Oct 22, 2007 04:37am | #2

   Bead board in baths--I like paint, unless it's a nice wood like mahogany or maple, but it takes a special bathroom to handle a special wood.

    

   Varnished passage doors?  Usually match the trim with the door.  But, I broke that rule in my house, varnished birch door and painted white trim--I like how it looks. 

   I don't like varnished cabinet doors with painted face frames.

    

   What about soffits?  To have them?  Sometimes.  Material?  Usually sheetrock, painted to match the walls or sometimes the ceiling. 

   Usually project 1 or 2" beyond the face of the cabinets, sometimes more if it has to line up with a fridge cabinet or pantry cabinet. 

   Often eliminate them and go with taller cabinets, or just have a dust shelf up there.

    

   You gearing up to work on your house?

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   plumbbill | Oct 22, 2007 04:45am | #3

   I lost the soffit battle with the DW--- I didn't she did----guess what we have soffits.

   So when framing for the soffits, I knew I was going to have crown on my cabinets, & I had 2 protruding cabs, fridge & double oven.

   I didn't want any uneven reveals, so figuring the outside corners with the rough framing, when I didn't have the cabinets just killed my thought process.

   “The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.” —George Washington

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   mike_maines | Oct 22, 2007 04:57am | #4

   I had to redo a soffit twice a couple years ago for similar reasons.  Sometimes the math just beats me.

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   Sphere | Oct 22, 2007 05:21am | #5

   Lay out the cabs foot print on the floor ( the wall cabs that is), and laser up...works sweet.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks

   "If you want something you've never had, do something you've never done"

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   mike_maines | Oct 22, 2007 12:53pm | #15

    

   Lay out the cabs foot print on the floor ( the wall cabs that is), and laser up...works sweet.

   NOW you tell me  ;-)

   I recently got a PLS2--I knew I'd find more uses for it...cool.

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   Piffin | Oct 22, 2007 05:24am | #6

   What I do to get that kind of thing right is to draw it full scale on the subfloor, then use a laser to project it up. Thinking upside down and around corners can get to confusing... 

    

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   Sphere | Oct 22, 2007 05:25am | #7

   Beat ya old man! HA!Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks

   "If you want something you've never had, do something you've never done"

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   Piffin | Oct 22, 2007 05:37am | #10

   WTH?Darned if you didn't! you musta hit post about the same time I hit reply 

    

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   brownbagg | Oct 22, 2007 05:25am | #8

   Another question:small bathroom, what size tile? in shower walls, what color?.Know BOB, Know Peace

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   Sphere | Oct 22, 2007 05:27am | #9

   Real small , All WHITE. it goes with the towels from the motel.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks

   "If you want something you've never had, do something you've never done"

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   Piffin | Oct 22, 2007 05:39am | #11

   How often you wanna clean it? 

    

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   brownbagg | Oct 22, 2007 05:56am | #12

   i got brown floors
   .Know BOB, Know Peace

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   Sphere | Oct 22, 2007 06:09am | #13

   Clean them and get back to us.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks

   "If you want something you've never had, do something you've never done"

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   plumbbill | Oct 22, 2007 06:40am | #14

   That would have been sweet if I had the cabinets, & the crown.

   I was using their cut sheets of dimensions, everything was down to bare studs, it came out OK I was worried cause I kept forgetting if I remembered that sheet rock only played in equation in one direction

   “The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.” —George Washington

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   dovetail97128 | Oct 23, 2007 04:58am | #16

   Bill, I draw it out to scale on cardboard and then tape/staple the cardboard up .
   They can't get your Goat if you don't tell them where it is hidden.

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   plumbbill | Oct 23, 2007 05:46am | #17

   That works too.

   The really tricky part was when I did the arches over the windows.

   I had the chord & rod dimension, but I needed the radius to set up my router.

   I wanted the formula just incase I changed the variables, called my brother ( I didn't have access to the web at the time) he called to marine boat engineers, that turned into a challenge as they were used to just plugin the #'s into the computer, they had to go back to their school days & try & rememder the formulas--- I guess their boss walked in & said "WTF are you guys doing"

   I could just picture their response "well ya see Ray's lil brother is building soffits in the kit.............."

   “The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.” —George Washington

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   dovetail97128 | Oct 23, 2007 08:22am | #18

   Bill, Now thats a good one! I framed and sided a new house one time for a shrink. All the windows and doors were to be arched tops with proportionally the same arch to them. I was lost in trying to figure a couple of them out. Math isn't my strong suit. Up comes the owner, scribbles a few things down on a scrap of paper , hands it to me. A formula for the process, turns out his 2nd. degree was math and and his 3rd. was engineering. His thesis was on the exact subject I was dealing with. I still have the formulas carefully copied into the front of my old blue rafter book.
   They can't get your Goat if you don't tell them where it is hidden.