People Spaces Colors Features. Subscribe metrie. The more detailed side is always closer to you on the bottom. Crown moulding is installed in the reverse fashion of base moulding. The deeper grooves go on the bottom, and shallower grooves belong on the top. Generally, crown moulding extends further down the wall than on the ceiling. The concave cove side goes down, and the convex rounded side goes up.
Step 2 Set up your miter saw to cut at a degree angle. The cut on the right will angle to the right. The cut on the left will angle to the left. Outside corner cuts — they have a long top and a short bottom edge. The cuts on the right will angle left, and the cuts on the left will angle right. Scarf cuts — These cuts are used to join two crown moulding pieces on the wall.
The angle of the cut will be in the direction of both sides. When viewed from the side or end, the deepest cove or wave is the end that faces the ceiling. Examine several different style of crown molding at a home improvement store and note how they tend to follow these general stylistic guidelines. Kathy Adams is an award-winning journalist and freelance writer who traveled the world handling numerous duties for music artists.
She enjoys exploring foreign locales and hiking off the beaten path stateside, snapping pics of wildlife and nature instead of selfies. Tip: Some installers prefer not to miter inside corners. Cutting Scarf Joints Scarf joints have nothing to do with keeping you warm in the winter, but they will help your molding look nice. For long straight runs, two pieces of molding overlap at a scarf joint.
By overlapping the two pieces and not simply butting the ends together, the transition is almost undetectable. Furthermore, if the molding shifts or shrinks, a scarf joint will remain hidden. Nailing the Crown Molding We secured all the pieces with 16 gauge finish nails through the flat part of the molding. Use the first couple nails to adjust your compressor pressure so that each nail is properly countersunk below the surface of the molding roughly 80 psi.
Nail into a stud whenever possible, and use a stud finder to locate them. As we nailed everything in place, we found it necessary to bend the molding to fit tightly against the ceiling and wall. This is a dangerous game as that can make corners and scarf joints even more difficult. To ensure that everything fit together snug, we would only drive a few nails and then dry fit the next piece.
Fortunately, caulk heals many wounds. I think the crown molding looks pretty good. Have you ever installed crown molding? What tips can you offer? Did you go the extra mile and cope cut the inside corners? My father-in-law installed crown molding in the living room in our former house.
He had never done it before and did a great job. Since we had an outside corner where the crown ended, I suggested we fill the gap with a tiny piece of wood. We then caulked and painted it so it looked solid. It turned out really nice.
On a stained wood job I would cope every time. Also burnish the outside corners. Looks good! I have thought about adding crown to my house, but it would have to go all the way down a hallway, over the stairs like yours did… probably a similar designed split entry ranch but it would also have to go into the kitchen, which includes cabinets with open space above them, not sure how it would look if the crown was there, its only about a foot tall.
Optionally you could put crown directly on the top of the cabinets with some blocking although that might not play well with the crown up on the wall. Mostly depends on personal preference and what would look best to you.
You could install tall cabinets and then end the crown right before the edge of the cabinet…. Did some crown molding to trim out the top of a built-in bookcase. The bookcase had elevation changes for visual appeal, so I was working with a lot of small pieces of crown. I did cope all my inside corners, because I think it was easier to get a tighter corner. However, I used a Dremel to do my coping rather than hand-sawing it.
I found it much easier to get an accurate profile with the Dremel than by using a coping saw. I used a nailing strip like your tip suggests and I liked that method a lot.
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