This my first post to this forum so I hope it works.
Anyway my question is a simple one: What are your opinions on the “best” material to use for exterior trim? Pine, primed hemlock, or other?
This my first post to this forum so I hope it works.
Anyway my question is a simple one: What are your opinions on the “best” material to use for exterior trim? Pine, primed hemlock, or other?
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if it's painted trim , we always use GP PrimeTrim
Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Mike,
What does this stuff cost, let's say for a lineal foot of 1x12 ? Ballpark.....
carpenter in transition
Hemlock is shakey, I wouldn't use it for trim or siding...
Pine? Cedar? etc? Depends, +'s and -'s for everything.
I'm using a combination of GPPrimtrim and Primelock. Inique features get MEDEX. Preffered siding in this area is Cedar or Cedar shingles.
Always backprime!
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Why the Primelock? D select has to be primed, but I have a thing about finger joints outside, and I would bet I can provide a better primer.
Edited 12/22/2002 4:06:49 PM ET by Qtrmeg
No doubt you can do better job that way but the number of good weather days for prepriming and installing here on the coast when you've got a tight schedule and a limited labour availability crowds me to the preprimed product and just dabbing the cut ends as I install. The fingerjoints on this product rarely show.
If that fuel pump hadn't gone out we would have got by these two jobs to show you up close the day you were here, they are a combination of the Primetrim and the Primelock. All the interior beaded board is the Pimetrim product too.
I know what you mean though about FG exteriors. I used some FG primed clapboards once and I never was happy with those. It always telegraphed through..
Excellence is its own reward!
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
--Marcus Aurelius
The primer is the weakspot on the ext, the fg's are next. Supply is a factor, I can have pre-primed here reasonable or do inhouse. It is one of those depends things.
Seeing as I have been playing tea drinker for awhile I haven't played with primetrim. From what I hear I don't know that I would look forward to it. For instance, I straighten eave trim with the trim, straight eaves are a bad thing? Flat work is fine, I guess, joints are an issue. Pricepoint and time still matter.
See? More questions than answers. Compare what to what, what for where.
Darn fuel pump, you have any more thoughts about the fest thing?
No- hadn't thought about it so busy lately and now it looks like we've got a grinch to squash - U no who I mean.
Excellence is its own reward!
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
--Marcus Aurelius
Squash? I was thinking it would be more fun to toss it around for a while, but I get bored easily.
I noticed you started a volley for first serve.
Who's the scorekeeper?.
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The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
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Hi Mark
You want good exterioir trim?
Use old-growth (salvaged) pine, from days when God made lots of real trees and people were not in such a rush for stuff to grow. Pine that is not Southern Yellow Styrofoam. Pine with slender growth rings; pine that smells strongly (and wonderfully) of pitch when you cut it. (Pitch has demonstrated its value as a wood preservative for millions of years.)
If you can't get this old wood, try to get some close-grain cedar. I bought some porch posts and balusters a number of years ago from Anthony Wood Products in Texas. I was truly stunned at the excellent quality of the wood -- apparently Texas cedar.
In any case, prime the trim really well on all surfaces -- two coats oil-based. I like to thin primer with Penetrol -- this gets more linseed oil into the wood. This of course means cutting and fitting all pieces before priming. Make sure to really soak the primer into the end grain -- if it is saturated with primer it won't suck up water. Or seal the end grain with Abatron WoodEpox.
Good luck and enjoy doing a good job!
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