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--- 2592147
Something about it doesn't look right. He was Mexican, btw
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>>2592147 (OP)
My theory is that the jobs that used to be occupied by low IQ, unskilled people were outsourced years ago. Guys who could only ever master the art of taking items from a conveyor belt and placing them into boxes no longer have an appropriate place in the job market, so they all end up in low-entry trades. 

The days of hiring out help to tackle a job you don’t have time for (or are simply too lazy to do yourself) are long gone. Simple things like dry wall, painting, finish work… it’s a serious roll of the dice when you pay some else, because you might not get an actual tradesman, just some dickhead with a truck and some tools calling himself a “contractor.”
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>>2592147 (OP)
This is art, the more you look at it the more you appreciate the depravity of the situation. Okay you notice that it steps down unnecessarily, but then you notice it was a ripped piece of the moulding, and THEN you recognize that's it's installed backwards. And the pièce de résistance is that the nosing/toe-kick/tread catch is installed on the wrong side of the tread. It's on the wrong plane of existence.
Truly amazing.
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>>2592163
The nosing seems ok.
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>>2592147 (OP)
That's a nice return on the second piece of baseboard.
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i think the guy who did that is making fun of you op
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Uno too mas cervezas at lunch
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>>2592163
It's not installed backwards, that's just the angle formed by the 45° cut to make the return that makes it look that way from that viewing angle.

But never fear, the loss of that mistaken dumbfuckery is replaced by the fact that the shortened piece doesn't butt into the larger one, but overlaps it instead.
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>>2592147 (OP)
>hiring 3rd worlders
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>>2592272
He said the dude was mexican, not north american.
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>>2592335
Good juan
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>>2592262
oh shit, completely missed that little gem
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Maybe he's not a trim guy
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Got what you paid for, dumbfuck
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Just smear caulk all over it to blend it all together and it will practically be professional quality...
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>>2592147 (OP)
you can flip a piece of trim and find the lines but it's probably easier for you to just make a cardboard cutout of the little step and shape then line it up with the top back of trim.
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>>2592715
Op here. Thanks for diagram. This makes more sense. I will show him this and tell him it can be done better.
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>>2592147 (OP)
Op's a pajeeta
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>>2592715
It'd probably look better like this
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>>2593337
And, just to clarify
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>>2592147 (OP)
lmao that is about the worst possible solution he could have done. call him back to fix it. Tell him to provide free labor and you'll pay materials, thats ridiculous
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>>2594166
Or else what?
These are not people you reason with or intimidate
--- 2594194
you're all posting in this thread trying to help OP, but it's going to get archived without him ever fixing it. he's never going to come back with a picture of it looking better and say 'thanks for all the advice!'. there will be no resolution, because OP is a faggot. a real man could look at this and take care of it in less than 30 minutes. even half a man. even if he was brain dead retarded he could take the suggestions in this thread and figure something out to make it passable. but OP is too much of a faggot to ever do any of that.
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>>2594170
fucking faggot pussy. this is why this shit happens to you faggot
>>2594194
a real man does his own work and not hire retarded latinx trash to do his work for him
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>>2594166
doesnt look he would even have the skills to do a better job than what he already did
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>>2596994
>latinx
Nigger you best be trollin.

>>2592147 (OP)
He couldn't even bother to fill the brad nail holes. Cut him loose and hire an actual carpenter. You clowns always think you're saving money hiring these cut rate idiots, but then you pay double anyway cuz you gotta hire someone to fix the fuck ups. FYI - The "fix the other guys fuck ups" rate is usually 175%.
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>>2596994
>fucking faggot pussy. this is why this shit happens to you faggot
It doesn't happen to me because I don't give work to these creatures in the first place
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>>2593339
>>2593337
no.
short molding runs up, goes straight, TURNS UP TIL LEVEL with the large molding, then turns again to align.
This is the way.
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>>2594194
A homeowner that hires a hack does hack work themselves. They would expect to pay an honest professional the same as the hack. They have it coming.
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>>2597388
Not in my house, i could assure you! Otoh, picrel wouldn't happen either. Just asking for trouble.
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>>2598737
what are the odds the two pieces are the same dimensions and would actually fit?
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>>2598737
This is what you get when you try to pretty up your construction grade basement stairs instead of saving up for a proper finished staircase. Gaze upon this nasty pube collector and despair
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>>2599058
If you do it right, they will
>>2599071
Falling downstairs because you're more worried about how it looks than your safety is much better, obviously...
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>>2599071
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>>2599677
if the top and bottom thicknesses arent the same its geometrically impossible
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>>2597218
La tinks.
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>>2597218
>filler
That's the painter's job.
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>>2598737
Tripping hazard