Crown molding installation question
 

I am about to install crown molding in my house but I have never done
that before. I think I got the cutting part down but I am not sure
about the installation part. Any one has ideas about what the best way
to install them? Is it better to nail it from the corners in or from
the center out? On the mitered corners will nails be enough or should I
glue the corners as well (regular wood glue is good for that)?
If anyone can help I will appreciate it.

Thanks.

And what about what to nail too? For example, for the vertical wall there
are studs every 16 inches (we hope). But how about the ceiling. Some joint
run perpendicular to the wall and some parallel. Will there be a place to
nail to for the wall with the parallel ceiling joist?

Darrell


"Silk" wrote in message
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I am about to install crown molding in my house but I have never done
that before. I think I got the cutting part down but I am not sure
about the installation part. Any one has ideas about what the best way
to install them? Is it better to nail it from the corners in or from
the center out? On the mitered corners will nails be enough or should I
glue the corners as well (regular wood glue is good for that)?
If anyone can help I will appreciate it.

Thanks.

"Darrell Dorsey" wrote in message
rvers.com...
And what about what to nail too? For example, for the vertical wall there
are studs every 16 inches (we hope). But how about the ceiling. Some
joint
run perpendicular to the wall and some parallel. Will there be a place to
nail to for the wall with the parallel ceiling joist?
Always nail into a stud or rafter. Wallboard has no strength. There may
not be a place to nail into a rafter if the rafters are parallel to the
wall.
Such is life.
Jim

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Silk wrote:

I am about to install crown molding in my house but I have never done
that before. I think I got the cutting part down but I am not sure
about the installation part. Any one has ideas about what the best way
to install them? Is it better to nail it from the corners in or from
the center out? On the mitered corners will nails be enough or should I
glue the corners as well (regular wood glue is good for that)?
If anyone can help I will appreciate it.

Thanks.


Hi Silk,

I have done quite a lot of crown for myself and friends/relatives-
I am not a pro.

If you do not cope the inside corners, your work will look like
an amateur did it. It will look ok, but 'cheesey'.

Cope, cope, cope.....it's worth the time and little extra expense (in
waste).

Lou