Search the forums

Loading
Home › Forums › Breaktime › Construction Techniques

attaching trim to drywall on ICF's

Muskegman's picture

attaching trim to drywall on ICF's (post #186131)

Muskegman on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 22:44
in

Here is a question. 

I was putting baseboard trim on in a ICF basement that had drywall on the icf.  I made sure I was nailing into the plastic reinforcing strip and nailed at different angles to the same strip.  The baseboard still felt loose though.  I was using 2" brads.

Any tricks for attaching trim to drywall covered ICF?  I thought about glue, but if the homeowner would want to remove trim it would probably wreck the drywall. 

Thanks.

-A +A

Trim (post #186131, reply #1 of 3)

by calvin in reply to Muskegman [original] on Mon, 03/15/2010 - 04:10

Unfortunately glue is the easiest.  To remove later, score drywall at the top of the base to keep from stripping paper face off where it will be seen later when reinstalling the base.

You could take the time to use trim screws and plastic anchors into the drywall-but that's way too time consuming and finding the screws later (and cleaning out the screw hd) would be tough.

Never worked with trim on ICF's, but have put it up on almost all non wood backed surfaces.

A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.

Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.


http://www.quittintime.com/

 

We had about  a thousand ft. (post #186131, reply #3 of 3)

by DaveRicheson in reply to calvin [original] on Tue, 03/16/2010 - 03:14

We had about  a thousand ft. of Azek milled base installed on block walls last year.

Drilled and counter sunk a couple hundred tapcons with Pl adhesive liberaly applied to the back, then used bondo to cover the heads.

Looks like a million $$ and is practically bomb proof in a commercial office building. The designer and powers that be had tried to save a few bucks in a small cafe' area by using vinyl cove base on a ceramic tile floor. It looked like poo and when they were going to repeat the mistake in the main hallway I called my lumber yard for an outside salesman to pay them a call. It was an easy sale for him, once they looked at the sample agianst the vinyle cove base job.

That was my first experience with Azek. I'm sold on the stuff.

I just hope we never have to pull it off the block. That's gonna be ugly.

Baseboard for icf (post #186131, reply #2 of 3)

by hulkster in reply to Muskegman [original] on Mon, 03/15/2010 - 20:21

Another way would be to score , cut, and remove say 3" of the drywall. Replace this with 3" strips of 1/2" plywood screwed to the plastic webs. If you are using say 3 1/2" baseboard, just nail to the plywood.