Describe to us how you protect finishes, and sequence those last few things: hardwood floor finish, painted baseboards, light fixtures and plumbing finish stuff. I am never quite happy with the way things go on my jobs, but I haven’t gotten it down to a routine.
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The final stages, in my little world
Trim goes in. Base stays out of hardwood areas. Hardwood flooring goes in, vinyl is waiting. Pieces for those areas are prefit and labeled on the back. Painters come and finish everything. Trim first, stain and lacquer on to the wall, then trim is masked, in the case of mantles or other protrusions, completely encased. Painters leave. Now vinyl, which gets covered with rosin. Electrician wires the outlets and hangs the lights. Hardwood floors finished. Signs on the doors, the counters, any hard surface area. You muck it up, you bought it. I carry slick cowboy boots in the truck for going in. If I don't have to go in and out a lot, sometimes I either go sock footed or carry my own rosin and plastic for covering things. Plumbing finish - knobs, sinks, faucets. Final trim goes in - shoe, door hardware, doorstops, bath fixtures. The HVAC vents get vaccumed. Sorry. No stopping it. You can put screens over them but inevitably you still get DW dust, sawdust . . . they've pulled out thunder jugs and dropped tools. Carpet. Last call for any paint touchups. Carpet installers can get rough on base. Most aren't too bad. GC does a final walk for anything that might not pass muster. Typically with the new HO and the realtor.
"The child is grown / The dream is gone / And I have become / Comfortably numb " lyrics by Roger Waters
did you say sequence?
HA!
eL DIABLO (teh boss) , sitting in his recliner down at his beach house, gives each sub a deadline for finish.
so I start to see them trickle in, some keep a schedule, some stick their noses in the door and find an excuse to be somewhere else, what usually happens is all of them show up the same day, one right after another, and work around each other finishing up.
If you are going to cover wood flooring with rosin paper, don't tape the paper to the floor until the finish has had a chance to harden. like three or four days.