"Vam" wrote in message
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I am installing Laminate floors and having hard time in getting a nice
perfect finish at the corner joints of the quarter rounds. Using a
mitter saw with 45 degree cut but always leaves a gap at the corners.
Appreciate your input on perfecting the corner cut. Thanks

Inside corners or outside corners? Outside corners means your miter box or
walls are not at 90 degrees. Get an adjustable square to measure actual wall
angles, divide by 2, and set your miter box with that. Don't trust the marks
on the box unless you have checked them with a square. For inside corners,
run one leg of trim square into the wall, cut the other at 45, and cope the
end to fit over the first piece. Do a Google on 'coping trim'- the topic
comes up here pretty often.

Finish trim ain't rocket science, but it does take practice. A good miter
box and a good coping saw, not the cheap imitations, makes a big difference.
Buy yourself a couple sticks of the cheap pine trim of the same profile.
Dinged up ones from the discount rack are fine, and should only cost a
couple bucks. Spend an hour practicing a couple dozen times before you start
cutting on the expensive stuff.

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