Install Crown Moulding Without A Helper!
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- čas přidán 30. 01. 2016
- A demonstration of a technique to install crown moulding by yourself. This trick works for most commonly installed crown.
Check out my other video on how to cope crown moulding too:
• How To Cope Crown Moul... - Jak na to + styl
Very clear explanation. Thank you for this video
Thank you for sharing your technique. I have never installed crown mold but I think I can do it by myself with your methods.
So perfect! THANK YOU!!
I feel for you brother. Difficult enough by yourself and then film it too! Go Dog!
I realize this is an older video. I have been installing crown molding in every room in our house as we update the rooms, and even onto out-sided rounded corners, but since my wife isn't really able to climb up ladders anymore, your ideas give me a workable way to continue install the crown moldings now. Thanks very much. Thumbs Up for sure!
You're a genius!! I would have never thought of a nail. I was trying to use duck tape. Ha ha ha! Thank you!!
This is very helpful and intuitive. Thank you!
Used your idea...works awesomely!
Nice job. Thanks for the help!
Doing some crown moulding today by myself and your tip came in handy,..thx!
Nice work, buddy. Excellent terminology and description and method.
Great video! So helpful. Thanks for sharing.
Super helpful, thank you!
Thank you so much, very helpful! 😊
Great tip, much appreciated
Thanks !!! Good Job !!! really helped !!
ABSOLUTE GENIUS!
Great trick !
brilliant--thanks for the tip
I am pretty sure ? In fact I am positive they had lasers measures (like my Bosh Blaze) and 5000 other brands when you made this?
Also a deadman works well?
Or as Spencer Lewis of the “Inside Carpenter “ states ! one 12 penny nail is all you need (watch his video on hanging crown alone).
Key to this is Lasers measurement !
All the nail stuff to hang a tape is for what reason?
Like many people said, don't waste your time with a measuring tape. Get a LASER measuring device, spend that 50-100 dollars and keep it for a very long time. One click and from wall to wall you get a very precise measurement. Measure exactly where you to intend to install the molding in the corners. No need to stand on ladders and do all this buffoonary stuff with a wobbly measuring tapes. I've never done trim in my life and when it came time to doing my living room baseboards and crown moldings, I watched so many videos and the best thing I ever did was buy and use a Bosch laser measuring tool. More accurate and efficient than the fanciest wobbly measuring tapes. Instantly I get the numbers, make my cut, put a pc of nail up like he did since I worked by myself, lifted up the molding, and if it was tight, I'd shave off another 1/16th off but always stay on the longer side than cut too short then have no material. My living room looks amazing! Caulking does wonders lmao
Laser devices have their place, but you should understand that accuracy is not assured at all. You won't find any pro carpenter using a laser on a jobsite, other than initial estimating where perfect accuracy is not necessary. Trim carpenters use tape measures and we often skip those too if we can mark rather than measure. Lasers may have an accuracy rating of 1/8 or 3/16 of an inch for the tool itself, and then more inaccuracy can be introduced as you attempt to measure long distances and you are slightly off your intended mark. Once you get more experience under your belt you will find that a tape measure, used correctly, will be more accurate and more predictable as far as potential inaccuracy. I covered some of this in another video here: czcams.com/video/13EuN903Pss/video.html
Wish I'd seen this video earlier.
I have used a similar method before but now use a Bosch laser measure, accurate to 1/16" at 100 feet I believe.
Oh yeah! Didn't trust lasers until I tried this one...just broke my first one and will get another ASAP. So useful!
awesome idea. my sisters wont help me...hopefully this goes well!
Thank you for taking the time to show us these tips.
Such a simple solution to installing crown by myself. Can't believe it took me this long to find out! Great instructions. Thanks!
Perfect
I need one of those fancy corner angle finders, I been doing it the hard way all this time. LOL Although to be fair I only do trim work a few times a year. Mostly just side jobs.
+Mopardude They actually make a plastic version of that tool I was using which is pretty cheap.
Nice, some great tips here, thanks!
Good video. Here's another good method. Mark your height on the wall at the corners and in the middle of the wall length. While you are in the middle of the wall, extend your tape into one corner and choose an even number and mark the wall at that measurement so that you can see it just below where the crown will sit. Let's use 100" if the wall is much longer than that. Then measure the distance from that line, to the opposite corner and add the numbers together. This is very accurate and eliminates having to roll your tape into the corner and eye ball it.
When you cut the piece, put that 100 inch mark from the first corner onto the bottom of the piece of crown. Now you can position your ladder under the 100 mark, and let that be your first point of attachment aligning the mark and the piece and the wall. The corners will flop but you can nail as far as you can reach in both directions to keep it up and then move to nail the rest.
I also use this method of measuring two sides and putting them together, although it can sometimes be tricky on long runs when you're trying to get the extended tape to be in one place. If I need to find a center of something I'll make two measurements as well, rather than use math to find the theoretical center. Sometimes the eye is more accurate than math!
So many people have a hard time figuring that out!
I don't understand how this video doesn't have way more views than what it has now.
+Nelson Blasini Ha! Spread the word! ;)
Great stuff!
USING A NAIL GUN?? OR STAPLE GUN??
A nail gun, not a staple gun, would be appropriate for crown. Smaller crown you can use an 18 or 16 gauge nail, for larger crown stick with a 15 gauge nail.
what technique are you using to connect the corner moldings?
+D. Ali I mentioned in the video about "coping" the corners, which is a standard technique that allows for some wood movement while keeping the joint tight. You can see me explain this technique in detail in my other video here:
czcams.com/video/3MT9iVtiOEY/video.html
What is that that you're using for the backer behind the crown?
I had just ripped something from scrap. You can use anything, really, but 2x boards work well ripped at an angle.
This one
Your a perfectionist. bet it looks good. 99 percent of thr people can't tell if there caulk there ....and don't bother to look.