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re: Admit Your Dumbest Homeowner Repair Mistakes
Posted on 8/5/21 at 7:05 pm to turkish
Posted on 8/5/21 at 7:05 pm to turkish
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Well with that patch job, make sure you don’t use 5/8” to patch it if it’s only 1/2”. That’s my dumbest mistake. And the dumbest part was how long it took me to realize that I was never going to get it floated and sanded flat.
For some reason, there is one wall in my house that has 5/8 drywall. I had to make cut a hole in it for something, and that number stuck with me because it was surprising how thick my wall was. A few months later, I ordered new doors for my house through a friend who works at a door supplier. He asked me what thickness drywall I had, so they could get the right size jambs. I told him 5/8, without measuring the existing jambs. Installation day comes, and all of them are too wide. So we spent the first half of the day cutting off 1/4" off of each of the 16 doors we were replacing. They look fine now that they are sanded, painted, and caulked. But if I get close, I can see some of the waves from trying to use a circular saw to get straight cuts.
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