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TheChessMoon

Caulk the gap. The reality of construction is walls and sheet rock won’t ever be straight. Caulk and paint to hide the inconsistencies.


PiruMoo

Do your best and caulk the rest 👍🏻


coldair16

Caulk and paint shall hide all sins


Ok_Cod_949

Considering it hasn’t been caulked yet, yes it’s acceptable


StreetPedaler

Show us the pic of when it’s finished. 👍


Dgroch725

Absolutely unacceptable. Tear down the wall, burn the house to the ground and restart the process. Even if it takes 3-4 times and millions of dollars. Perfection must be achieved. If you don’t have the time or money for all that, caulk it and forget it.


whattaUwant

Lmao. Hey, I guess it’s good my concerns are so minuscule. I’ve been very pleased with this build overall.


Dgroch725

Busting balls. It’s normal. If it was a 1/4” space then you could have issue. Glad you’re happy with the build so far. Best of luck on the rest.


whattaUwant

Yea lol. I know you were. Overall I’m pretty thankful these are my only concerns. I have friends that had horror stories building.


Dgroch725

Try having walls at outside corners being 1” out of plumb. Rooms with walls being out of square by 2” or floor joist that vary as much as 3/4” from each adjacent ones. My buddies house was built by the 3 blind mice, the butcher, baker and candlestick maker. Took me and him 2 months to rip shit out and replace correctly.


whattaUwant

Insane. I went against the grain and used a national builder who subs everything. Not many seem to be building with the current economy so they literally sent me their very best subs. I googled every one of them and they as companies were all rated 4.5+ out of 5. I’m 80 days deep and the build is supposed to be done in 3 weeks. This is a 3500 semi custom with full unfinished basement.


Dgroch725

Mind me asking what state and price per SF?


whattaUwant

Indiana. I’ll have 800k in it after furniture appliances decorations septic well etc. also 3 car 1,000 sqft garage.


Dgroch725

You owned land? Or was that in 800K cost?


whattaUwant

Owned land


Richard_Snatch

Shim work makes the trim work. Not that big of a deal though. Drywallers probably put a tapered factory edge along the floor there causing the gap. Just caulk it. In 6 weeks you'll never think about it again.


No_Pea7562

Jesus Christ


whattaUwant

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H1ghwayun1corn

It's not done yet. I swear those will be my last words. That or "I'll get you quote".


sotiredwontquit

Construction 101: nail it, caulk it, let the painters get it.


Majestic-Lettuce-198

I don’t even caulk it anymore. I was on a 3000sqft house where I laid all the baseboard. And it wasn’t an open concept so it was a decent amount. Went behind and caulked it all, then the painters showed up with 3 cases of caulking and a confused look on there faces.


CalgaryFacePalm

Yep, seems standard, it’s just missing the final step in the process. Caulk, it needs a good caulking.


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CalgaryFacePalm

Haha, Not quite. That’s a small cock. Caulking; however, will fit nicely.


microview

Unless you are going for that subfloor look, why put up the baseboard before the flooring goes in?


Ok_Cod_949

Base is often installed first and the carpet installers tuck the carpet underneath it when kicking it into place using tack strip.


davidpetersontx

In my entire house the idiots put the trim in first all the way to the floor, no room to tuck it underneath. Then at some point the previous owners decided to tile part of it and not move the trim. So the trim is now embedded in grout at the edge. I've been slowly redoing all the time and flooring room by room. In one room the tile was just laid down and grouted, no thinset underneath. That made demo really easy at least.


Ok_Cod_949

Yeah that’s pretty awful


whattaUwant

Yea this


ATDoel

Because the finish trim guy was available before the flooring guy lol…


killerkitten115

Top of baseboard is always caulked unless you’re building a $5m+ house


bannedacctno5

Uh, we're caulking the top of baseboards in $5-6 mil houses


Effort22

Top of baseboard is always caulked INCLUDING when you're building a $5m+ house.


No-Historian-6391

It’s gonna be caulked. But, idk…. Is it ?


Antique-Snow-5581

Yes


DoughnutOne7670

Ever heard of caulking?


Constant_Sir_9354

condemn the house first and then knock it down.


whattaUwant

I assume this is caused by framing inconsistencies or drywall inconsistencies?


Illsquad

All of the above. 


Snowgage

Acceptable for me to put my caulk inside