Saving Crown Moding When Installing New Floors

Where to install crown molding.

Saving crown moding when installing new floors.

To see how you can do this watch how to install crown molding. Cut the base shoe a quarter round molding that goes at the bottom of the base molding to length and attach it with a finish nailer. Crown molding can be intimidating because walls often aren t flat and nailing is difficult. As we mentioned crown molding is often installed between walls and the ceiling or the wall and the floor.

Floor trim or baseboard molding is the decorative piece of wood that runs along the base of the walls in your home. This will help prevent splitting. In this article we ll show you how to install trim on the walls and ceiling first then add the crown. Miter the corners as with the base molding.

Beginning at the wall opposite the door cut the moulding to the appropriate length and with a pencil mark the locations of the studs onto the moulding. The builders knew the advantages of combining small wood moldings. To install the moulding simply line it up with the layout lines. If you want to give crown molding a try start with a smaller project before moving on to an entire room.

Nail it at an angle so that the nail goes downward into the wood. The nails won t hold if they re driven straight into the polystyrene molding. Next drill pilot holes into the moulding where you ve made the marks. Plus you can often achieve a great effect for less money by combining small wood moldings.

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