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Trim guy on my crew in Spokane crowned a door casing wrong and cost us 3 hours, and I'm done letting people 'figure it out'
Had a guy helping me on a remodel out near Spokane Valley two weeks back, and I handed him the door casings on a jammed opening while I ran the base. Came back and he'd coped both top corners the wrong way, so the two pieces met in a butt joint with a visible seam right at eye level. We had to pull them, patch the nail holes, and rerun prime on the whole run, which ate about 3 hours and a half quart of paint on a Friday. I get it, everybody learns somewhere, but this is the third time this spring I've handed someone a simple miter task and got back something I have to redo. My rule now is simple: if you've never run that profile before, we do a test cut on scrap first, no exceptions, even if it costs 5 minutes up front. The real fix isn't the saw or the angle, it's that nobody wants to ask a question until the damage is already in the wall. Anyone else have a helper screwup that made you change how you hand off work, and where do you draw the line between teaching and babysitting?
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riverreed27d ago
Started doing the scrap cut thing after a guy blew out a mitre on some crown last year, saved me way more time than it cost. I also make them show me the first corner before they keep going on the rest. Past that I just let them run and we fix it together if it goes bad, that's how they learn.
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