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OT - No Jamb Saw
JimG
>Well, we're getting ready to lay our first hardwood floor. I was going to trim the sheetrock walls per the Don Bollinger book and videos, but I called the rental place and they don't carry a jamb saw. Any suggestions as to how else I might cut the sheet rock to just above the new floor height?
thanks!
jim
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JimG
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Re: OT - No Jamb Saw
Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA
>Actually, it may be an OK forum. If you've got a handsaw you're not too fond of (because of the sheetrock), you can do a lot of trimming of wall surfaces by laying the blade flat on a scrap of the flooring (or a piece of stock of identical thickness) and sawing away. I've never used this approach for sheetrock, but I've done it multiple times for door trim, and it works a wonder. You wind up with a gap above the finish floor just about the right width for caulking.
For sheetrock walls, I would think you could do the job with a wide knife of some kind on the same principle, but I'd avoid using LOYL's favorite turkey-carving knife.
Re: OT - No Jamb Saw
Mike G.
>Uhhh...stup[id question...what about the base board trim? If you remove the base trim, run your flooring leaving 1/4" expansion room between the ends and the sheetrock, then reinstall the base trim.
Or if you didn't have base trim, then run the flooring up to the sheetrock, then install shoe molding to cover the edges. HTH's
Mike G. who just finished installing 1200 feet of flooring.