Shop-Built Trim for Doors and Windows

Show up in the final weeks of any job and you’ll see the trim carpenters and painters bumping heads with all the other trades trying to mount cover plates, hang wallpaper, and lay floor coverings. Looming deadlines and general job-site chaos can make for less than perfect finish carpentry — the part of the job that needs to look the best. To combat those end-ofthe- job headaches, we’ve developed a system for producing door and window trim as complete prefinished units in the shop. We then install them at the last minute — after everyone else is out of the way and the bulk of the moisture generated during construction has disappeared. The