Male: Welcome to the Home Depot’s video on crown molding.
If you’ve never installed a crown molding, you’ll learn how to today. And if you’ve tried it but just couldn’t get it right, this short video may be just what you need to try it again and get it right this time. Think of it as the 3M’s. Know what materials you need, know how to measure and know how to miter. The best grade of molding is called stain grade because it doesn’t have defects and it’s suitable for a clear finish.
A less expensive type of solid wood molding is called paint grade which will usually have a white primer coat applied at the factory. This will save you time and money because you don’t need to apply primer. Some popular molding profiles are available in a hardwood like oak. This trim is more expensive than softwood trim and usually stain grade.
Watch as Blake Thomas, a pro at trim work, shows us the basics.
Blake: This is the 12-inch dual compound molder. The feature that we’ll be using today is the miter feature. The button on the bottom allows you to swing the table 50 degrees in two directions. And to lock it down, the top one, you just push it down.
I’m going to show you exactly what it takes to measure for your exact cuts for the crown mold. The wall is actually a 45, but a 42.5 is what it takes to put two pieces of wood together to make that 45. The protractor would help you decide which angle this is.
This piece is going to be squared on the inside part, the way I’m going to cut it because I’m going to cope in the long piece to it.
So that wraps up your long wall measurement and that shows you how to make your first measurement on the bay window for the 22.5 degree outside angle.
We’ll hit the third M, miter, as we go over the ways to cut for an exact fit.
Blake: You don’t cut crown molds flat like you would in any other kind of crown. We’re cutting the crown upside down and backwards. So what we’ll do is set in the fence and you got to look on the side right here. When that top level is flat with the bottom of the table, you know that’s where the bed needs to be.
So first things first, we’re going to cut a 45-degree inside angle on the left side. So in this case, it’s going to be on the right side. Take your hand and hold it tight against the fence and then we’re going to make the inside cut. Now, we’ve got to make our inside angle on the other side. What I’m actually doing is I’m setting this piece up to make a coat corner. And that piece is ready. So now, I’m going to show you how to coat. The part that we’re coating out is the exposed piece.
Now when you coat it, you want to make sure that you’re cutting it back at an angle because you don’t want to leave any of that wood in front of the coat part. You cut the joint on a miter, and the part of this exposed, you cut it out to where the piece of wood actually hits in to the other piece of wood that is coming in to.
Female: It sounds like seamless.
Blake: Exactly. That’s exactly how it fits together. Now, we’re going to cut a square piece, we go back to zero. Okay. So we’ll go ahead and square this side up. I’m going to cut a couple of test pieces at a 22.5-degree angle. Everything stays the same. You just set this all on a 22.5. degree.
Okay. It’s just simple as that. They just go right together with a 22.5-degree angle.
Male: You can print out a complete checklist to supplies needed for this project from the Home DepotClinics.com website. Just select the online workshop project you’re working on and your shopping list will appear just to the right of the video window.
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