I'm moving out of a house I'd rented, and my dogs at one point had eaten the plastic "trim" pieces that are on the outside of the back door, which is your average metal-framed swinging with a big full-length dual-paned glass window. the damage isn't really to the door or the glass; it's to this stupid plastic trim that's around and within the glass that makes up a grid of squares. I don't know what this trim is called. Bonus question: Can I just replace the trim and not the door? Home Depot was, unsurprisingly, unhelpful.
posted by SpecialK on Dec 7, 2009 - 8 answers

Any suggestions on clipping the claws of a reluctant cat? [more inside]
posted by krisak on Jul 11, 2009 - 29 answers

Where can you get a good beard and moustache trim/style in London that isn't too expensive? [more inside]
posted by Not Supplied on Mar 5, 2009 - 6 answers

Nose hair trimming and allergies. [more inside]
posted by damn dirty ape on Aug 26, 2008 - 5 answers

What's the best electric trimmer for the bikini area? [more inside]
posted by annabellee on Jun 9, 2008 - 12 answers

I have a bunch of wooden casing moldings around the interior doors of our Washington, DC home, and over the past 75 to 100 years, they've taken quite a beating. I'd love to slowly replace the worst of them with identical moldings, but despite a pretty exhaustive search on my own, I can't find anyone who still carries anything with the same profile. Does anyone have any tips for molding manufacturers/sellers that have good variety, especially of moldings that are accurate to the turn-of-the-century period? [more inside]
posted by delfuego on Apr 13, 2007 - 12 answers

Individual entries on my MT 2.6x installation are archived using their trimmed entry-names (i.e. blog.com/trimmed_entry_na.php). I'd like to make the filenames longer from now on (trimming to 30, probably), but I think that if I change the parameter in my Archiving prefs and rebuild, it's gonna go and change the filenames of all my preceding entries too. This I don't want. Is there a way to change the trimming for filenames, but only "from now on"?
posted by Marquis on Mar 20, 2006 - 3 answers

Please help a recovering black thumb gardener with burning questions about a gorgeous ivy topiary... [more inside]
posted by widdershins on Oct 12, 2005 - 5 answers

There are a few evergreen bushes in front of my parent's home and they are overgrown. How do I trim them back? [more inside]
posted by crazy finger on May 28, 2005 - 6 answers

Wood trim/baseboards: I would like to replace all of the baseboards in my rental unit. It seems that the baseboards currently in place are made of two seperate pieces (a taller bottom bit(7 1/2") and then a more ornate top piece(2 1/2")). I would like to do as little work as possible, so I am wondering where I could purchase single piece baseboards that incorporate the above two elements (10" tall)? The local Home Depot doesn't seem to carry this.
posted by sharksandwich on Sep 17, 2004 - 11 answers

Line trimmers. I'd like to go with an electric line trimmer, but they don't seem to have the same amount of torque as the gas variety. Does anyone have experience with a very robust, torquey electric line trimmer? It has to be able to cut through blackberry bushes, for example of growth it needs to whack down.
posted by grefo on May 25, 2004 - 3 answers

How do you trim a guinea pig's nails ? (more) [more inside]
posted by konolia on Jan 3, 2004 - 10 answers