Baseboard - Coping inside corners vs measuring angle and cutting to fit

[mike93lx]

CA glue is hugely helpful to have on hand for trim work. The activator is key too.

I cope the best I can I caulk the rest.

 

[Bert_]

I gotta say, I'm blown away by the amount of coping in this thread. I would've sworn that a majority of everyone would say 45 it and call it good.

I'm surprised at the amount that say caulk. Must be a lot of painted baseboard.

 

[mike93lx]

I'm surprised at the amount that say caulk. Must be a lot of painted baseboard.

I love good trim work, but my preference is painted either way

 

[redmondjp]

I'm surprised at the amount that say caulk. Must be a lot of painted baseboard.

A lot of us live in **** houses that don't justify even using real wood trim. I have a 1970s rambler in a neighborhood of $2M+ McMansions. No matter how nice I make this house, it is still a teardown. So I put in MDF trim which is painted and yes, I did cope the inside corners and it works great. I pre-paint all of the trim using an airless sprayer, install, caulk to the wall and the nail holes, and then touch up the walls and the trim.

All that work didn't really matter because the kids have hammered the snot out of my fine trim work anyways . . . (sigh) In 100 years, it won't matter anyways!

Now if I lived in a nicer house where I could get some value back by installing higher-quality materials that would be appreciated by a future owner, then that's a different situation. I have wasted too much of my life turd-polishing, and am trying to spend what's left of it doing less of that. I have accepted the fact that my house will likely be torn down by the next owner, so there is really no point in me spending a lot of coin to upgrade it beyond what makes it functional and workable for us now. YMMV

 

[jar944]

I'm surprised at the amount that say caulk. Must be a lot of painted baseboard.

I'd say most (99%+) of new construction is painted.

This is all paint grade, no caulk used.

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

A lot of us live in **** houses that don't justify even using real wood trim. . . . (sigh) In 100 years, it won't matter anyways!

In 100 years not a single damn thing will matter so they're ALL "**** houses" by that standard.

Chillax, no one gets out of here alive. Take your enjoyment where you find it and don't worry about 100 years from now. Hell, if you can manage it, don't worry about 100 days or 100 hours from now.

 

[mike93lx]

In 100 years not a single damn thing will matter so they're ALL "**** houses" by that standard.

Chillax, no one gets out of here alive. Take your enjoyment where you find it and don't worry about 100 years from now. Hell, if you can manage it, don't worry about 100 days or 100 hours from now.

I have two friends with 200+ year old houses that would like a word with you