On 11/1/2013 9:23 AM, woodchucker wrote:
On 11/1/2013 10:03 AM, Unquestionably Confused wrote:
On 11/1/2013 8:49 AM, Greg Guarino wrote:
The front door of our house has what a little searching tells me are
called "fluted pilasters" on either side. Style-wise, they look very
much like this:

One thing about the vinyl/plastic/pvc.. I would recommend you use liquid
nails to join the corners b4 nailing. In the winter I get a big gap from
shrinkage. And I think Liquid nails would have held that together. and
pulled the pieces as the length shrinks. I don't know for sure, but
that's just an opinion.

Rather than liquid nails, I went with white silicone caulk. As the
original installation using the plastic was replacing windows with vinyl
clad Pella's, I wanted the whole thing well sealed and truly maintenance
free. Laid a good gob of silicone into the mitered corners, nailed them
well, filled the nail holes with white silicone and smoothed them over.
No gapsg and no maintenanceG