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The great baseboard debate: nail vs. adhesive...
I keep seeing people in my neighborhood groups swearing by construction adhesive for baseboards, but after pulling up a buddy's trim job from 2 years ago in Denver, every single piece came off clean with zero damage to the drywall... How is that a good thing? Am I crazy for thinking nails and a stud finder are still the way to go, or is this ‘no nail’ thing actually better for something I'm missing?
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veram9922d ago
Four years in my first house with adhesive baseboards and I had to replace a section after a plumbing leak. Took me an afternoon with a putty knife and a heat gun, but I still ended up peeling the paper off the drywall in three spots. Nails would have let me pop them off in ten minutes with a pry bar and no damage. People act like adhesive is some miracle but it just makes everything harder to fix later. If you're okay with possibly wrecking your drywall every time you need to get behind a baseboard, go for it. I'll stick with something that doesn't turn a simple repair into a full wall patch job.
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