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Butt joint flat baseboards
Butt joint flat baseboards








butt joint flat baseboards

You're right outside corners will need to be mitered but there are always more inside to inside lengths in a house than outside corners so there are fewer angles to do anything with except dropping the saw into a detent and cut. Not having to play with the angles make it faster. The only corners that need to be read for a custom angle are outsides. Justin Huisenga​Coping accounts for at least 3* out of square on a corner without adjusting the saw settings to anything but a 45* angle. When it comes to a house, nobody's getting down on their hands&knees to look at baseboards or climbing a ladder to look at crown- If it looks good from 6', it's called done! The bottomline- "Time is Money!" Beautiful finish carpentry/joinery is an art form now. "Super glue" can set in mere seconds with a misting of water. Carpenter's glue will take several hours to set. Cyanoacrylate glue- "super glue" is seeing more and more use in carpentry projects- and it's mainly a time factor choice. Now there are stronger glues/adhesives that are far superior to carpenter's glue. Of course this was the standard with carpenter's glue. The best joints I've seen are either just good clean butt joints or joints cut in the 15* area. Unfortunately I've seen more of them fail than others. Using a 45* scarf joint seems like the best joint due to the amount of surface area created to "glue-up".

butt joint flat baseboards

It's really about finding the happy medium between glue strength, surface area, and moisture content (understanding the amount of shrinkage). Over the years I've seen a lot of different approaches- and the explanations are arguably true and false at the same time. Scarf joints, when needed are a strange "devil in the details". If it's going to be stained- make them gnat's ass tight! So, I tend to take the approach that if it's going to be painted-just get it close! It's going to be caulked anyway. But, I also need the job done in 3-5 days. Don't get me wrong, I love to see tight-ass joints that could go w/o caulk. There are the few that actually have a mental block- I call it "anal"- where pride in finishwork is first. Coming from a background of production and semi-custom homebuilding- 30+ yrs I've seen everything.










Butt joint flat baseboards