Do you remember how comedians used to regularly start jokes
like, "My wife is SOOO fat …" and wait for the corresponding,
"How fat IS she?" response from the audience? Remember those jokes?
My bathroom IS one of those jokes. And I'm not laughing.
Yesterday afternoon I was moving right along, managing to
cut the quarter-round with only ONE mitred angle error when I made a rather
nasty discovery that begins with: My bathroom is SOOOO small. How small is it?
So small that I can't get a 46-inch piece of quarter-round to the wall in a
single piece – without dismantling plumbing at one end or the other.
ARRRRRGGGGGHHHH!
There's another option, of course. It means cutting the
piece. And that sucks. I've not decided yet whether I'm going to do it or not
or if I'm brave enough to put on my plumber's hat. (I'm of the school that if
it ain't broke, don't fix it. I'm of that school because the lessons I've had
have taught me time and again to NOT go mucking with things within This D*mn House
that are otherwise sound … it's generally not a risk worth taking.)
How can a 30-square-foot room be this difficult? The finish
line is definitely within reach but looks like it's going to be one helluva
home stretch.
5 comments:
Doesn't stuff like that just take the wind right out of your sails?? GRR.
Am I understanding that the problem is a straight cut on the quarter round?
If so, go for it. I had to patch trim where a PO had cut chunks out of it to construct a closet they built onto the wall (thank goodness they just cut chunks out, and didn't rip off the part in the closet.) I just used wood putty or somesuch, I forget exactly what, but patching, sanding, and painting, no problem. It looked fine.
I would imagine you could easily fix the cut join in a similar way.
You can do it! Just make the cut and move on to the next project:-)
Jayne -- YES! I was so mad - I had to walk away from it and work on something else.
Karen Anne -- Yep, you got it. And yes, I can touch it up. I just resent having to do that because usually when I do, it's to cover an error I MADE. ;-) It's also a particularly sensitive issue because of an egregious error already made (also NOT by me).
First rule of life: do NOT mess with the plumbing. If you do, you will have to to follow it all the way out to the water main.
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