Wide door casings

[Knuckle Dragger]

Been there, now you have a reason to buy this.

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Yup,
The one I found.
I had at least a half dozen or more finished nails that I found and that was only because it was on a knee wall half door and it was unfinished on the other side.
There are things you can do to minimize that from happening but it's usually more inconvient to wire.
Crown molding is notorious for this. I just nail plate the crap out of it.

 

[SF_Carpenter]

Have any of you ever run into an issue where you wired a new house, and when you went back to do the finish work, you discovered that the carpenters used wide door casing trim rather than standard? I now have an issue where they did just that, and the casing is right at the edge of the switch box. There is no way a wall plate will fit properly with the casing in the way. I would have nailed a 1X4 to the switch location on rough-in if the carpenter or G.C. informed me in advance that they had planned to use wide casing. What do you normally do in this situation?

I would talk to the carpenter (...don't be surprised if there is a simple solution )

Cheers,
Tom

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