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Cool sounds like you are making massive progress!
You still normally have to put one last coat of paint on the prefinished baseboards. I've seen places advocating that coat before nailing into the wall and then just doing touch up.
We've tried painting them once the baseboards are on the wall, because it's been too cold to do the pre-paint. Even though we've taped off the floor we haven't had a lot of sucess. (Maybe Punwit has ideas.) What I've ended up doing is going around on my hands and knees with Qtips and razor blades after we have painted and pulled the tape off to try to get up the little drips that seem to leak past the tape.
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Prepainting the baseboards is definitely the way to go if you have the room to spread the trim out on sawhorses. If you elect to install first and then paint you might want to check on safe-release tape. Regular masking tape that is left on wood too long will leave behind glue that can be difficult to remove. One hint when masking off is to use a putty knife to press down the edge of the tape that is adjacent to your painting surface. This will decrease (not eliminate) the number of spots where paint can seep beneath your tape. Goop Luck!
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Most of the pre-painted trim is only primed. I suppose if you're happy with the way it looks you could live with it that way. Personally I like to prepaint with a good enamel then install and spackle the nail holes and caulk the cracks. I then paint of the spackle and the caulking. If you don't paint the caulking it will be a dust magnet and in short order you will have a dingy place everywhere that you have caulking.
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It's not, it's just a bunch of 2x4's loosely nailed together. We got the go-ahead from the contractor that inspected the place.
The bigger problem is that it has one 240 and two 120-volt wires running down it to the kitchen sockets and range. I'm thinking I'm going to hire a handyman to extend the wires and run them along the ceiling and down that wall to the right, the way it should have been done in the first place. Then I'll remove that vertical thing and the 2x6 along the ceiling, and put in a track light with the three hanging pendant lights over the breakfast bar. Which, like the rest of the kitchen, is eventually going to be tiled. Also, those cabinets are going to go.
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The trim may have to wait until it gets warmer, then. ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
