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High Performance Caulking As a homeowner, part of your yearly or bi-yearly maintenance schedule should be to inspect and reseal siding and trim joints around the exterior of your home. Use high-performance acrylic-latex, acrylic, acrylic-silicone, polyurethane, or terpolymer rubber caulks or sealants to seal gaps around windows, doors, corners, and other exterior joints that are exposed to…
Photo: Mudroom addition. Installation Note: All trim in the article, Installing PVC Trim, is Azek PVC trim. All miters were glued ~ Expansion joints are located on the inside [house] butt ends and under cover of overlapped boards and concealed with flexible caulking. PVC Trim – What You Need To Know Many customers these days…
Installing Faux Wainscoting with Moldings Wainscoting whether it is the real cope and panel or applied molding- faux version always seems to dress up a room with class. Recently a decorator asked us to dress up this dining room [photo below] with a faux wainscoting look. Although my favorite is to build cope and stick…
Rotted Marvin Window Trim and Sill Sixteen years ago I put these windows in and have always maintained the paint on them. Unfortunately the finger jointed wood trim that window manufacturers use these days is far inferior to that used in days past and now required repairing a window sill. Repairing A Window Sill I…
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