Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Scribers: Part 1 - The Problem

I had noooo idea what scribers were till about a week ago.

Let me show you...

Below: See the gap between the wooden frame and the weatherboards? Well, there shouldn't be a gap.
It should look like the pic below:


Much neater, huh!

That's because the long, vertical piece of wood connecting with the weatherboards is a scriber. It's shaped to fit the weatherboards.

To improvise, instead of using scribers, a previous owner of our house filled some of the gaps (very roughly) with filler... it looks terrible:


Some (or maybe even all) of these gaps are going to be addressed with the work that's going on at the front of our house at present.

Read Part 2 on Scribers here.

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