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Mounted a keypad 1/4 inch crooked in a 90 year old house and tore out the drywall fixing it
Was roughing in a panel swap in a 1920s bungalow over in Austin last Tuesday and the wall by the back door was so out of plumb that my keypad looked slanted even though the level said it was dead on. Homeowner walked by and asked if I was going to fix it, so I pulled the box, shimmed it, and patched the hole with a scrap of drywall I keep in the truck, but the mud needed two hours to dry before I could sand and paint. Ended up eating my lunch in the driveway waiting on it. Now I bring a small piece of 1/8 inch plywood shim stock on every old house job. How do you all deal with out of square walls on flush mounts, shims or do you just mount it plumb and let the trim hide the gap?
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the_james9d ago
Why fight the house? In a 1920s bungalow nothing is square and never will be, so mounting it plumb to the level and letting the trim and a bead of caulk eat the gap is the honest fix since the wall itself is the thing that's wrong. Chasing the crooked wall just means you're the only straight thing in a room full of lean, and the next guy who looks at it will think you're the one who messed up.
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