Saving Crown Moding When Installing New Floors

How to replace floor trim.

Saving crown moding when installing new floors.

In addition to allowing endless possibilities for customization smaller moldings are easier to cut and install than large moldings and allow more flexibility on wavy or irregular walls. Beginning at the wall opposite the door cut the moulding to the appropriate length and with a pencil mark the locations of the studs onto the moulding. Miter the corners as with the base molding. These boards though primarily decorative serve an.

To see how you can do this watch how to install crown molding. This three piece system solves those problems. Floor trim or baseboard molding is the decorative piece of wood that runs along the base of the walls in your home. Next drill pilot holes into the moulding where you ve made the marks.

To install the moulding simply line it up with the layout lines. The builders knew the advantages of combining small wood moldings. Cut the base shoe a quarter round molding that goes at the bottom of the base molding to length and attach it with a finish nailer. As we mentioned crown molding is often installed between walls and the ceiling or the wall and the floor.

Crown molding can be intimidating because walls often aren t flat and nailing is difficult. In this article we ll show you how to install trim on the walls and ceiling first then add the crown. Plus you can often achieve a great effect for less money by combining small wood moldings. The nails won t hold if they re driven straight into the polystyrene molding.

This will help prevent splitting.