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Making a Custom Trim Molding for Sliding Doors

Bob talks with Lou Sandonato from Moynihan Lumber about the molding for the newly installed sliding doors. Sandonato explains how a piece of the old trim was taken off and a template made from it. The template was used to create a custom molding knife to cut the profile in the new molding. Once the knife is made, any amount of wood can be cut using the template. The majority of the cost is in the making of the knife itself. Bob emphasizes that for a big remodeling project, it makes a lot of sense to use this method. We watch how the knife is made and used to cut a length of molding. Moynihan Lumber also made the molding for an odd-sized window for the home.
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Making a Custom Trim Molding for Sliding Doors

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" So -- It this is not a stock molding that you can just buy at the lumberyard right you guys that that Moynihan had to make this -- correct what we did is we took a piece off fueled. Trim and made a template of written and no we do is we we cut the knives in our shop. To produce this molding here so back of the shop. Using a knife like this machine can actually mill. As much of this molding as we might need out of whatever lumber we might want it whatever species -- whatever fits the bill if we should run. Fifty feet to run thousand. Yeah the cost is really Fed up and say making that night correct correct just set of knives are about 200 almost from start to finish so if you're doing a big remodeling project it makes a lot of sense absolutely if you're -- smaller ones they've might not make the reports -- correct ya Don the more it seems the more you do. Melissa -- this. Take. -- All right so this molding also had to be. Custom cut right. Yes yes it did we also replicated that to match the rest of the trim in the kitchen and abdomen and talk over the noise of the gun for a minute -- anyway the interesting thing is that Moynihan lumber and many regional lumber yards often will. Offer this kind of service yes a lot of places that have a custom built workshop will replicate -- including an odd window. An odd sized window like you've made for us here in this day and what what's the little mudroom where we took the door up. Correct -- VI -- took measurements of the windows that -- existing and we made a window to match thanks guys this is a thing of beauty. That you."

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