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LouLou asked:


I just got a new tub wall put in. The man who installed it put 100% silicone around it including the top by the ceiling and on the edges. But I have to paint and where he put it on it is on the wall a little and on my crown moulding. I tried to paint but the paint won’t stick at all. I’m trying to take the silicone off now, with great difficulty. What can I do?
The silicon is up on my crown molding and too hard to reach to remove. Can I apply a normal paintable silicone over it? I don’t want to have to hire a carpnter to come in and replace my crown moldings.

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antonio v asked:


The rise is 3 5/8″. I plan on using 2 1/2″ finish nails with a nail gun. For nailing into ceiling, I udnerstand that I can just cross nail into ceiling where the ceiling joists run parallel to the wall & nail into studs on the wall. I understand that if crown is over 5″, then backer needed??? Any answers would help.

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Connie R asked:


I want some crown moulding installed in my house and got a few quotes from carpenters. I was just wondering if their prices are typically negotiable (standard practice) or not. Don’t have much experience hiring contractors. So I was just wondering. TIA

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Wintergirl asked:


A hardwood flooring store who did our floors in the family room did the moulding for $8.50 per foot including materials. Then this contractor I hired out of the classifieds wanted to charge me $8/ft PLUS I had to buy the moulding myself (He was a rip off from other work he did). Today I got a quote from a painter of $6.25/ft including all materials. How much should I be paying? I’m in CA if it matters.
We were going to do the upstairs hallway & all the bedrooms, which would be about 300 linear feet we were told (by the rip off contractor). He’s the one who told me $8 per foot just for labor. $2,400 just for labor on upstairs crown moulding seemed steep to me…

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mattoxa88 asked:


I recently installed crown moulding in a bedroom and used the Door & Window Clear Caulk by mistake. Do you think I could apply Painters White Caulk over the existing Door & Window Clear Caulk and all will be ok as far as getting a clean line?
It is paintable. Thanks for all of your help.

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pameliacc asked:


Hello, I am new to this forum and I have many questions to ask.
Some history to begin with.
We own a 1960’s single level Ranch style home. Currently we have 1.5 inch oak trim around the doors and some windows and baseboards. In the 80’s they added on a great room with vaulted ceilings that has trimmed windows and wood casements. The remaining windows in the bedrooms, livingroom, bathrooms, and kitchen are not trimmed nor do they have wood casments. We also have hollow wood doors throughout.
We have removed the popcorn ceiling in our bedroom and we are ready to paint. We have also removed the gold carpet (which is also throughout the rest of the house) and we are installing wood laminate flooring. I really want white crown moulding and trim around the windows, doors, and baseboards. I am not sure that this would look okay in one room only. I would also like to possibly add some crown moulding in other locations. Is there a rule regarding this issue?
In response to “K”, I am sorry, maybe I wasn’t being specific enough, and I do have that problem at times. I am asking if it is generally okay to put white crown molding and white trim up in one or so rooms if the rest of the house has oak trim. Is it a general rule to continue the same molding and trim style throughout the house?
I did leave out that we are replacing our old aluminum windows with white vinyl, so this will help to add some white throughout the house.
These are big decisions for us. Partly, because I am meeting a lot of resistance from my husband about painting over oak molding. It took me 15 years to convince my husband that there was more paint colors than white!

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Rob asked:


…for installing pre-hung doors(needs to fire 2 1/2 finish nails and 1 1/4 finish nails) and for installing moulding(crown moulding and baseboards). What is 16-guage, 18-gauge, etc…? Also, should I get a nailer that uses a compressor or DC current(cordless)?

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Nicholas P asked:


I want to add under-cabinet lighting to my kitchen. We want to use xenon/halogen strips under each of 4 cabinets and we wanna wire them such that no wires show and a light switch will turn them on/off.

Is this something that an amateur can do? If we hired an electricitian, how much would this cost (ballpark figure)?

picture of kitchen: http://img432.imageshack.us/img432/8820/kitchensizedae1.jpg

u can see the 4 cabinets there that we wanna put the lights under

to left of sink (behind paper towels) is a light switch to control garbage disposal and then an electrical outlet; i was thinking we could tap into that electrical outlet’s power and install a light switch over there to power all of the lights.
we wanna go permanent as part of our kitchen upgrading; we painted the kitchen today and are crown moulding this weekend; then we are gonna tile the backsplash, so i’m thinking we should do the undercabinet wiring first, or at least plan for it before we tile the area…
all outlets in kitchen are GFCI

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Dana G asked:


We’re doing some cosmetic work on a small bathroom, (started out just painting the walls, now it’s become a HUGE project!) We’ve decided that now we’re into it, we’d like to install crown moulding, but never having done it before would like to know - Do we paint the trim first and then install? Or vice- versa?

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Jim C asked:


Is there a trick to putting crown against a textures ceiling? Will it sit flush or look dorky with all the gaps?

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