JUNE APPRENTICE OF THE MONTH
First-year apprentice gets himself out of a jam(b)
Tim Cadwallader, a first-year apprentice from Wellington, was faced with the challenge of fixing a window installation that went slightly wrong. Tim had to fix the reveals and jambs, so the window was up to his standards and looked good.
He explained that there was already an extra piece of timber around the window reveals and his boss suggested trying a fix-up job first.
“I put a few packers in and puttied over the top, but, after a couple of goes with filler and sanding, it looked horrible. So, I decided to take the extra timber off, scribe a new set and use brads to fit them flush.”
The extra work was worth it, because it resulted in a tidy-looking window that Tim was happy with. “I knew the client would be happy, too!” he says.
Tim learned that there’s only so much you can do with builders’ filler and that, sometimes, you need to start from scratch to get a good result!
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