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Checked out that new 'luxury' condo building on 5th Ave and the trim work is a joke
I was walking past that big new glass tower downtown yesterday, you know the one, and I stopped to really look at the finished units on the ground floor. The window casings and baseboards look like they were cut with a butter knife. I saw gaps you could fit a dime into, and the miter joints on the crown molding are already opening up. It's all this cheap, finger-jointed stuff that's painted white to hide the sins, but you can't hide bad cuts. They probably paid some guy $15 an hour to rush through it. It just burns me up that people are paying a million bucks for an apartment with trim work I wouldn't let leave my shop. Has anyone else seen a big, fancy project lately where the finish carpentry was just plain bad?
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danielgonzalez2mo ago
A laser is great, but it's useless if the guy holding it doesn't care. You can have perfect lines on the wall and still hack the wood because you're rushing. I saw a place where the baseboard was cut short, and they just filled the huge gap with a glob of caulk and painted over it. The line was straight, but the work was trash. Tools don't fix a bad attitude.
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elliot_lane961mo ago
Exactly, it's all about the person doing the work. A laser level is just a tool, not a magic fix for not giving a crap. That story about the caulk gap is a perfect example. The whole point of good trim is clean lines and tight joints, not just hiding mistakes. Seeing that in a "luxury" place is just insulting to anyone who knows what they're looking at. It makes you wonder what else they rushed through that you can't see.
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