baseboard blues [View all]
So......in the little apartment I rent that is crafted in an extremely beautiful hundred year old house, I have noticed that the baseboards in the bathroom have been warping. They just look at first glance like regular wood baseboards as one would expect. But now one of them is peeling slightly, and I see that they aren't really wood, but some kind of composite that looks like sawdust and paper molded. BIZARRE and who would ever use that?? Now I also realize that a window sill in another room warped in the same way. Not really wood??
I need to know what this stuff is so I can demonstrate that this deterioration is not MY fault. A mandated inspection is coming up, after eight years here.
My landlady is 86 years old and almost daily harasses me about lint in the dryer trap, so I need to be prepared for her to think that I damaged what is actually faulty, shoddy craftsmanship. (Her son did the remodeling.)
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