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Trying to match old baseboard trim after a flood repair
My basement flooded back in April and I had to pull out about 40 feet of baseboard in the hallway. I spent three weekends hitting up every restoration shop and lumber yard in Edmonton trying to match the original 1970s profile. Anyone else find that older homes here have some weird trim sizes that just don't exist anymore?
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casey1628d ago
Blew a whole Sunday dragging samples to the hardware store like some kinda weirdo. Figured out real quick that my 1970s trim is basically a unicorn now.
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hannahs4528d agoMost Upvoted
My buddy Mike spent 3 weekends chasing down trim for his 1974 ranch house. He finally found some random guy on Craigslist who had a whole stash of the stuff in his barn. Mike drove 2 hours each way to get it, paid $200 for a few boxes of the stuff. Turns out the guy had been hoarding it since the 80s thinking he'd remodel someday. Now Mike's got enough to do his whole living room and half the kitchen. Lucky bastard.
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rowan_roberts4928d ago
And that's always the way, right? You spend weeks hunting for something, then bam, you find some old guy who's been sitting on a goldmine for decades. I had a similar thing with my 1970s bathroom tile. I needed like six more pieces to finish the shower. Found a guy on Facebook Marketplace who had a whole pallet of it from a house he tore down in 1985. He just wanted it gone. I paid him fifty bucks and filled my whole trunk. Now I've got a lifetime supply of that stupid avocado green tile. What's the most random thing you've ever found stashed away like that?
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