How To Install CROWN MOLDING using #crownmolding #miter #bevel #Amazon

well hello friends Jordan here and today we're gonna do a little tutorial on how to install crumbling I've been in the industry for a long time now and over the years I've made a few mistakes and I've learned from them I've picked up a few tricks and I'm here to share them with you today and hope that this makes your life a little easier crown molding can be can be a tricky one I've seen some pretty terrible hack jobs but I'm hoping to help you out here let's make it a little smoother okay so without any further ado let's do it today we're going to show you everything from doing a standard inside corner to an outside corner with an off angel' we're gonna cover how to do a seam when your crown molding is not long enough for your wall and how to do a nice return first things first find your measurements I always measure about three inches down from the ceiling reason being that's where the crown is actually going to sit drywall corners gonna really vary once you've got your measurement you know I suggest reining it both on a wall and a piece of paper for your reference another little tip it's always best to round up about half a sixteenth or so because you know once you've cut your piece you're basically stuck with it you can after you fit it you can always trim off a little bit but if it's too short you just wasted a piece and wasted some time next step is to find your saw say first off never assume a 90-degree corner is actually 90 degrees seen here it's actually about one degree shy of a perfect corner I know it doesn't seem like much but it's more than enough to really throw off your miter and you're gonna spend all this time tweaking it and bending it just trying to make it right and in the end you're just gonna fill it with caulking and it's just not going to look professional a perfect fit is actually quite easy to find if you have the right tools and know-how all you need is a t bevel and a saw set carpenters protractor simply place the t bubble in the corner and transfer it over to your saw set then BAM you got yourself the perfect saw setting okay now it's time to start cutting first things first set your saw to the correct setting which you found on your saw set after that simply place your crown molding where it's supposed to be and make your cut take your time watch your fingers nobody wants to be called stumpy another really important thing here is I've got as you can see there I've got these these jigs that hold the crown molding in place up against the fence very important to have if you don't have one you can't really hold it manually you're not going to be accurate so I highly suggest either getting one of these rigs or you can make one yourself with check YouTube you'll find something for that now before you start gluing up your molding and breaking of the nail gun it's very important to do a dry fit just to make sure that it's not too long not too short and you can make adjustments after that once you've realized that it fits and everything is okay to go it's time to start gluing it's very important that you glue all ends in all sides of the crown molding itself the inside mitre is outside minors and everywhere where it touches the wall it's not the nails that really hold the molding it's more than glue because once the glue dries that's where it's going to stay something I see all the time and it really gets me going is when people put their crown molding up side now a lot of people don't realize that it's the more detailed Cove always goes on the bottom when you place it on the wall okay now that you're all glued and ready to go it's time for the fun part time to install so a couple little things to point out I guess one of them being right when you put your what your mitre together you might find that there's a gap on the top at the bottom that doesn't mean the minors off it just means the positioning is wrong all you have to do is just move both pieces of molding at the same time either up or down depending on where the gap is you can figure it out as you go along just sort of tweak it take your time play with it and you know just try and stay relaxed don't get anxious once you've got your mitre just right pop a couple of nails right into the corner itself and then sort of work your way along and go from there so yeah in a perfect world you should probably always try to hit your studs sometimes you can't find them sometimes they're not there in the ceiling just make sure to get the ones in the corners get a stud finder and mark them if you can if not then you hit your nail on a bit of an angle and the glues gonna do the work in the end like I said earlier so don't worry too much if you can't find the studs and always make sure to get your glue cleaned up while it's still wets don't walk away and continue on and let it dry on its own because it is so much more difficult if everything hardens and you have to pick it out with a knife now when you're not doing two short pieces or at least a long piece in a short piece say if doing two long ones it's good to build a sample piece like what I'm doing here where I'm just cutting another piece of the exact same angle and I used that to sort of tweak around and dry fit and make sure that I have my the mitre or my corners in the right position that'll just nail the rest of the board in and that way on my next piece when I put it in its gonna be a perfect fit because I used a sample so every once in a while you're gonna come across a situation like what we have here where we have a piece of crumbling that just ends doesn't go to inside or outside corners nothing to bite out of butted up against all you have to do is you have to create a return as seen here so it's a nice little piece looks really good shows off the profile and it's quite easy to do here's a short little clip on how it's done [Music] [Music] [Music] okay now that you've done all these perfect miters and made this beautiful job of installing all your crown molding you need to finish it by filling all the cracks and holes this is actually very important if you if you messed this up it doesn't matter how good of a job you did carpentering it it's gonna look terrible so a couple things to point out you really want to make sure that who's your your caulking like push it in you don't want it just to sit on the surface because it's gonna wind up opening up over time if you don't fill in those cracks make sure to have a wet sponge with you at all times keep your fingers wet but not too wet if you saturate it too much you're gonna find that it's gonna sink in after it dries so keep a wet sponge keep a wet finger but not too wet in this video I'm filling my holes my nail holes with caulking which can be done if you do it correctly if you get it too wet sand wipe it down it's gonna sink and look terrible so you just sort of want to wet your finger a little bit and just sort of spread it and smooth it out after this I'm going to show you a little clip on how to deal with seams you're gonna come across situations where you got 12 feet of crown molding and a thirteen foot wall when this happened you're gonna have to make a seam and you need to do it right if you don't do it right it's gonna open up and it's going to look terrible so watch learn and enjoy [Music] [Music] [Music] this video was brought to you by saw set check us out at saucier for more information on this fantastic little tool thanks so much for watching guys I hope you enjoyed and learned a little something please stay tuned we'll try to get more videos out for you as soon as possible like subscribe and comment below take care

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Length: 10min 1sec (601 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 17 2018