Cutting Ceiling Molding Angles

Angled flats on back of molding must rest squarely on the fence and base of the saw.

Cutting ceiling molding angles.

Some digital angle finders give you an automatic reading of this slope while others have buttons to push first in order to find the angle measurement. Non compound method vertically nested bottom of the crown molding rest against fence. For a left hand cut most of the molding will be to the left of blade when the finished side of the molding is face up bottom down. Standard 45 degree cuts can be used on a sloped ceiling.

Crown molding vertically nested against fence decorative edge is always against the fence. Place trim molding on a miter saw in the position it will go when installed. Put the first end of the molding under the blade. Blend your house sides together with help from an experienced foreman.

Nail it in place by shooting trim nails every foot or so at a diagonal angle. Ceiling trim makes ceilings better looking by creating a link between wall and ceiling. With a measuring tape measure from the outside edge of the corner back along the wall to the end. Each molding joint has a left side and a right side.

For a right hand cut with the trim in the same position you re cutting the right side of the joint source. Set the moulding to the top of the wall with one flat side to the ceiling and one to the wall so the curved side faces down at you. Use that to determine the exact low point of where the two pieces of crown will touch in the corner on the wall. Turn the blade to 45 degrees outward.

Top of the crown molding rest against table. No it s not necessary to cut and use the complicated triangular piece. Just an fiy take on the same principal that chris uses there s a youtube video that shows a master carpenter who basically threw out his angle finder crown molding protractor in lieu of a roll of paper drywall joint tape to figure out angles a link is easy to find by typing how to measure for crown molding without tools but. How to cut crown molding.