Fixing Puppy-Chewed Base Moulding
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Genie Ragin
Our puppy chewed some areas of the acrylic-painted, wooden base and door frame moulding in our laundry room. We're ready to fix it - her chewing days are now over! some spots are REALLY chewed, but still, we'd like to get away without replacing the trim, but patching it somehow.
Lightweight spackle would be easy to use but not durable - several chewed areas are on out-corners of the base. Is there a moldable substance that could be hand-applied and then painted with an acrylic paint? Caulk is really too loose of a substance, and not very application-friendly coming out of a tube. For me, that would be a mess. What should I use?
Lightweight spackle would be easy to use but not durable - several chewed areas are on out-corners of the base. Is there a moldable substance that could be hand-applied and then painted with an acrylic paint? Caulk is really too loose of a substance, and not very application-friendly coming out of a tube. For me, that would be a mess. What should I use?
3 answers
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From experience, it is best to replace the trim. If you carefully detach it from the wall using small pry bars, you can salvage most of the trim and spend less money and time just adding new trim and repainting all the trim you replaced. When using pry bars, be sure to have some flat piece of wood so you do not push the hammer or pry bar into the sheetrock. Good luck.
The Garden Frog with C Renee
on Aug 23, 2013
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Bondo. That's the stuff they use to repair cars pliable and paintable and will last forever.
Tcs
on Dec 04, 2015
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Will be more time consuming, frustrating, and expensive to repair than to just replace.
Marion Nesbitt
on Dec 06, 2015
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