Does anyone have the number for Ty Pennington?

My folks are coming for a visit in a couple of weekends, so Chris and I are once again planning our cleaning tour de force that we hold every time we have houseguests. There's usual stuff to do, like clean the bathrooms, tidy the living room, debate if we should hang up some pictures, but this month we had set an additional home-improvement goal: finish the baseboards in the living room and paint the hallway, as we have two gallons of Pecan Sandie latex sitting in the utility room waiting to be called into service. One of the complicating factors is that we really ought to replace the door casings at the same time - thirty-five years of wear and tear haven't exactly been kind to them, and they're one of the home's shabbiest features.

Door casings really shouldn't be a complex repair, but Chris and I are struggling way too much with it. You see, when we tore out the carpet in the living room, dining room, and hall to have the hardwood underneath refinished, we realized that the gap between where the floor planks end and the wall meets is sometimes as large as half an inch. This meant that we needed to buy thicker baseboards, to hide the gap. So, our nine-sixteenths of an inch thick baseboards stick out at least a quarter of an inch beyond the door casing that they meet up with at doorways. This means that we'll have to shop for thicker door casings so that they fit more flush with the baseboards. Only it seems like it's impossible to find a thick door casing that isn't three inches wide as well! Some of our doorways are tucked less than three inches away from a corner, so we are kind of restricted to skinny casings … Grr … I knew that I should have been a carpenter!!!

Comments

[ani]

Good luck on the home repairs. They are forever.

[Jaime]

Now if I had the # to Ty Penninton I wouldn't be using it for carpentry... Well could be my excuse for that cutie pie to come over and take off his shirt and sweat... LOL
My hubby and I do the same, whirlwind clean up, but a through clean. We need the excuse to do a great through clean:o)
Good luck on the repairs and I think you guys are going to have a faaaabulous house at the end of this.

[laura]

Jaime, your comment totally cracked me up!