My uncle-in-law's favorite trick to install crown molding is to cut everything quick and hope the angles were right, then smear in copious amounts of caulk to hide the fact none were right, and then hope no one notices. An easy 3-step process.
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I really wanted to say thank you. I am a 24 year old woman and my mom went missing in 2018, my dad doesn't know ANYTHING about owning a home or construction and so cannot teach me anything either. Me and my boyfriend bought a home and I would be completely lost without your videos for guidance. Truly. It's so weird because you've become like my second dad but you don't even know me!! Well I just wanted to say thank you for everything you do
Love the Dewalt saw mounted to a Milwaukee stand! When starting the crown, I like to select an area with multiple small pieces that I can handle easily. Dry fit them to make sure the cuts are accurate. Then assemble a few pieces down on a flat surface like a table in order to align the joints. Use super glue and activator to keep the seams clean and tight. Then you can put the assembly up as one piece using the caulk to fill any wavy imperfections between the wall and the long edge of the crown. Significantly reduces the need to caulk the joints and makes the overall appearance look seamless. The glue does not readily crack because the joints are stronger than the actual trim regardless if you use MDF or real wood.
"Don't let the little things bother you" - Well said - No kidding any work you do on your own, with time and attention will more than likely be way better than the builder.
Thank you so much, ive been watching for a while, and wanted to place crown molding with LED lights in my office for a while. So your video came out right in time for me :)
When I trayed my basement ceiling, I made my crown with a craftsman box design made it easy to cut with added revealing and lighting behind . All square cuts simple and it turned out great.
Great video! Love the backer idea for non wood framed walls! I taught myself how to cope inside corners. It was frustrating at first but made them so easy and perfect. And don’t assume outside corners are a 90! I measured one at 92 and when I cut 2x45 degrees the gap was too big for caulking. Just a word of warning.
Geish Jeff! I am going to have to watch your video multiple times to understand. I have always wondered how to do this correctly. Thank you for thinking carefully on how to teach us. Cheers Atlantic Canada
Cutting baseboard was always easy for me but crown tripped me up. That measurement tip you had abt 5 min into the video to just flip the measurement book is such a simple fix but it blew my mind. This changes everything. Look forward to trying it out.
Your videos are beyond helpful and great, your very though and informative with your explanation and teaching of the matter on hand. Thanks to your video I was able to finally get that crown molding led project I always dreamt of doing and it was beyond amazing then I expected to be keep up the good work you save people lots of money with your videos
I think a quick refresher on measuring the inside/outside corner angle and then showing how to make the cuts to form the measured angle is due. Can't always assume the corners are 90 degrees. Otherwise, you'll end up with trim that looks like what you'd see in my workplace's conference rooms and hallways.
I've been planning on doing this in my remodel. Should be particularly nice in the living room with RGB rope lights keyed to react to whatever is on the TV.
C8 glue will eliminate the need for caulk on corners. The wall still needs caulk but the corners won’t ever pull away. I will also use LED strip lights, They are brighter and last longer than rope lighting.
Jeff! I installed this MDF crown in my midwest home a few years ago and all of the joints have split on me. Face nailed into thick wood paneling, top nailed into joists, and the joints were all decently matched. Just a lot of expansion and contraction I guess. Any tips for repairing and/or prevention? Multi-tool the joints out and pack them with Alex Ultra?
I have crown molding trauma… I told my mom I’d help her install it, saying “how hard can it be?” $130 of hard. We got it all installed but I wish I’d seen this video first.
VIDEO REQUEST: Can you do a tutorial on how to make a kitchen island or kitchen countertop using the 24" x 48" porcelain glossy tiles that look like marble (that can be found in your favorite big box hardware store)? Thanks in advance
Just bought my first home, it has a crown molding like how you build it with a 3 inch gap, i thought it was wrong but i found out it’s a design just for something like this.
Making cuts on a short board works with the marked tape, but when you start getting into long pieces of crown, it's almost impossible to hold the wood (or MDF) flat against the fence. Crown stops are so worth it. Also, I understand that you were doing this for demonstration purposes, but it seems to me it would be easier to drop in the rope light above the 2x2 piece of wood prior to installing the crown. Overall, very helpful video.
Also easier for the apprentice to put a finish nail through the rope light if it's already up. Plus if it's not the adhesive strip stuff, the rope style stuff gets all kinds of attitude about laying straight after a long trip across the Pacific in a tight spiral, so it gets in the way a LOT.
Can I use your method to make the molding on my kitchen cabinets on the extension hight from top of cabinet to the ceiling but without lighting I mean close to the ceiling?
So I have never done crown, we are redoing a bonus room and we wanted to do decorative trim. Where I am confused, is that the ceiling has a slight downward pitch for rain run off. How does this affect the cuts when meeting walls?
I would be curious, short of wiring an outlet, how those rope lights plug in. Having a portion of lights running down the wall seems like it would look awful
aww man we always painted the moulding first and then the seams we cut the crown upside down and backwards flat faced at a 45 degree angle using a triple chip blade so the painted side doesn't chip, away from wherever the light is coming from in the house, so that when you calk and touchup paint you will never see a seam.. but my way is just way too confusing.
hey please any body help would be great ive installed lights into channels with a difuser the gove rgbic and now i've got some polystyrene coving but when im testing them againt the light they look awful i assume its due to them not being painted yet but i didnt want to start sticking them up for it to look bad and still showing hot spots after if anyone knows what im talking about please help im getting close to paying somone lol
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@15:43 Tell me about it. Brand new home over half a mill and I'm finding crap that angers me everyday!!! I guess I have a lifetime to perfect it ehh? 🤦🏾♂️
Learn carpentry skills. Listen to finish carpentry or insider carpentry on YT. Also learn which side to cut with the miter on inside n outside corners. Not what you think.Caulking is no big deal. Just don't nail in the design of the mldg. Will be hard to cover brad heads.
Is it just me, or is your technique a bit sketchy at times. You hold the right side with your left hand and cut with your right hand. That's a great way to one day chop something off, no?
@@biney-animemmanuel2360 I am guessing they either don't install anything at all to transition from the wall to the ceiling or they do something more quick and simple. My house has 1x4, oh and I live in Texas.
@@poeticsilence047 I just redid my walls and ceilings, and am in Texas as well. We just did inside drywall corners and a thin bead of caulk. The walls meet the ceiling directly without any trim at all. I think it's all just preference. It would have been much easier to do crown lol.
Usually your demos are great. This one was terrible. All you did was hurry through a bunch of cuts not showing what you were trying to achieve. Should’ve taken each cut to the specific corner & show why you were cutting it that way, bring it back & show why you did it that way. I was totally confused.
My uncle-in-law's favorite trick to install crown molding is to cut everything quick and hope the angles were right, then smear in copious amounts of caulk to hide the fact none were right, and then hope no one notices. An easy 3-step process.
Industry standard. Cheers!
😂😂😂😂
“Do your best and caulk the rest” 🤦♂️🤣
Wood putty for the larger gaps and get to sculpting!!!
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⚠️ " You Know, 5% sure 🤔 I SHOULD REALLY come wit a F😏n WARNING 🤐LABEL 🏷️⚠️
I really wanted to say thank you. I am a 24 year old woman and my mom went missing in 2018, my dad doesn't know ANYTHING about owning a home or construction and so cannot teach me anything either. Me and my boyfriend bought a home and I would be completely lost without your videos for guidance. Truly. It's so weird because you've become like my second dad but you don't even know me!! Well I just wanted to say thank you for everything you do
"Trust more in your caulking than you carpentry skills." Truer words have never been spoken lol
This is the second time when I was about to start a project and you come out with a video to walk me through it. Praise God!
Happy to help! Cheers!
Love the Dewalt saw mounted to a Milwaukee stand!
When starting the crown, I like to select an area with multiple small pieces that I can handle easily. Dry fit them to make sure the cuts are accurate. Then assemble a few pieces down on a flat surface like a table in order to align the joints. Use super glue and activator to keep the seams clean and tight. Then you can put the assembly up as one piece using the caulk to fill any wavy imperfections between the wall and the long edge of the crown. Significantly reduces the need to caulk the joints and makes the overall appearance look seamless. The glue does not readily crack because the joints are stronger than the actual trim regardless if you use MDF or real wood.
"Don't let the little things bother you" - Well said - No kidding any work you do on your own, with time and attention will more than likely be way better than the builder.
Always enjoy watching, and listening 🎧 to your instructions. Maybe, you are the Bob Ross, Mr Rogers of home renovation/ DIY instructors. 💞😊
Wow, thanks
I really love all your videos. Sometimes you go too fast on things, but you have great confidence and knowledge. Thank you!
Love crown molding! Makes a room look elegant. Thanks for your tips and advice Jeff! 🙌
You bet!
The best part is it’s relatively easy and inexpensive.
Thank you so much, ive been watching for a while, and wanted to place crown molding with LED lights in my office for a while. So your video came out right in time for me :)
Great video us usual :) How about a quick video with tips how to measure the angles for old houses. I just so happen to live in a parallelogram.
Always timely with a project in thinking of. Cheers Jeff appreciate your guidance.
Glad to help! Cheers Stephanie!
When I trayed my basement ceiling, I made my crown with a craftsman box design made it easy to cut with added revealing and lighting behind . All square cuts simple and it turned out great.
Great video! Love the backer idea for non wood framed walls!
I taught myself how to cope inside corners. It was frustrating at first but made them so easy and perfect.
And don’t assume outside corners are a 90! I measured one at 92 and when I cut 2x45 degrees the gap was too big for caulking. Just a word of warning.
Cheers!
Geish Jeff! I am going to have to watch your video multiple times to understand. I have always wondered how to do this correctly. Thank you for thinking carefully on how to teach us. Cheers Atlantic Canada
Cutting baseboard was always easy for me but crown tripped me up. That measurement tip you had abt 5 min into the video to just flip the measurement book is such a simple fix but it blew my mind. This changes everything. Look forward to trying it out.
As always down to earth 🌎. Great show love all your videos.
Is there anything you can't do? I have learned so much from you. I'm in my first house and your videos have been invaluable. Thank you so much!
Your videos are beyond helpful and great, your very though and informative with your explanation and teaching of the matter on hand. Thanks to your video I was able to finally get that crown molding led project I always dreamt of doing and it was beyond amazing then I expected to be keep up the good work you save people lots of money with your videos
That was awesome Jeff. Well done!!
Cheers!
I think a quick refresher on measuring the inside/outside corner angle and then showing how to make the cuts to form the measured angle is due. Can't always assume the corners are 90 degrees. Otherwise, you'll end up with trim that looks like what you'd see in my workplace's conference rooms and hallways.
this helped me a lot
I've been planning on doing this in my remodel. Should be particularly nice in the living room with RGB rope lights keyed to react to whatever is on the TV.
Noice!
Just installed baseboards and quarter round in my house that was built in 78. Thank God for caulk
Good advice 👍
Thanks 👍
Nice job. 👍
Thanks 👍
Great video! Wondering why you used LED rope vs self-adhesive LED strip? Thank you
Favorite way to fill nail holes in trim... Sherwin Williams no shrink spackle. Magic in a tub.
Great video. Will we ever see you do roofing installation video, or coverage of different roofing products? Would be great. Thanks
Great suggestion!
C8 glue will eliminate the need for caulk on corners. The wall still needs caulk but the corners won’t ever pull away.
I will also use LED strip lights,
They are brighter and last longer than rope lighting.
You said in one of your videos to always glue your corner joints, why the different approach here?
JIM 😮
Jeff! I installed this MDF crown in my midwest home a few years ago and all of the joints have split on me. Face nailed into thick wood paneling, top nailed into joists, and the joints were all decently matched. Just a lot of expansion and contraction I guess. Any tips for repairing and/or prevention? Multi-tool the joints out and pack them with Alex Ultra?
I have crown molding trauma… I told my mom I’d help her install it, saying “how hard can it be?” $130 of hard. We got it all installed but I wish I’d seen this video first.
VIDEO REQUEST: Can you do a tutorial on how to make a kitchen island or kitchen countertop using the 24" x 48" porcelain glossy tiles that look like marble (that can be found in your favorite big box hardware store)? Thanks in advance
Just bought my first home, it has a crown molding like how you build it with a 3 inch gap, i thought it was wrong but i found out it’s a design just for something like this.
quick question is this method more accurate then setting the saw to 31.6 and bevel to 33.9?
Making cuts on a short board works with the marked tape, but when you start getting into long pieces of crown, it's almost impossible to hold the wood (or MDF) flat against the fence. Crown stops are so worth it. Also, I understand that you were doing this for demonstration purposes, but it seems to me it would be easier to drop in the rope light above the 2x2 piece of wood prior to installing the crown. Overall, very helpful video.
Also easier for the apprentice to put a finish nail through the rope light if it's already up. Plus if it's not the adhesive strip stuff, the rope style stuff gets all kinds of attitude about laying straight after a long trip across the Pacific in a tight spiral, so it gets in the way a LOT.
@@aaronb1138 Exactly ! 👍
Yes but eventually if you needed to replace the light rope it might then be too far in to reach it.
Can I use your method to make the molding on my kitchen cabinets on the extension hight from top of cabinet to the ceiling but without lighting I mean close to the ceiling?
Can you tell us where you got the lights please? Those would be perfect for my needs 😊
A cool pairs of safety glasses while using that power saw would be nice 😊
I use 3/4 round for a nailing strip
So I have never done crown, we are redoing a bonus room and we wanted to do decorative trim. Where I am confused, is that the ceiling has a slight downward pitch for rain run off. How does this affect the cuts when meeting walls?
1:21 - "Turn that Crown.. .Upside down"... sorry, dad joke :-D Great video as always.
How do you know what height to mount the backing strip at?
You can also use it as a picture hanher . Like they did in war days
Where did you place the outlet?
👍👍
I would be curious, short of wiring an outlet, how those rope lights plug in. Having a portion of lights running down the wall seems like it would look awful
What is the height of the walls? How does this look on an 8 foot wall?
aww man we always painted the moulding first and then the seams we cut the crown upside down and backwards flat faced at a 45 degree angle using a triple chip blade so the painted side doesn't chip, away from wherever the light is coming from in the house, so that when you calk and touchup paint you will never see a seam.. but my way is just way too confusing.
Just curious why you put the backer at 3 1/2" (10:45 on the video) from the wall. How did you come up with that measurement?
I want to know the same thing! I'll assume it's a 'I fiddled until it looked right' calculation, though.
Can you post the LED lights used in the vidoe
👍👍👍..
What if I have rounded edges?
Qq - can we put up crown moulding over bulk heads?
I have it throughout my living room and it annoys the hell out of me.
Yes, why not?
def!
@@HomeRenoVisionDIY thank you!
Question can I use a miter protractor to find the inside corner and outside corner. ?
hey please any body help would be great ive installed lights into channels with a difuser the gove rgbic and now i've got some polystyrene coving but when im testing them againt the light they look awful i assume its due to them not being painted yet but i didnt want to start sticking them up for it to look bad and still showing hot spots after if anyone knows what im talking about please help im getting close to paying somone lol
Does it matter how close you get to the 3.5”? Home Depot can’t produce a straight board to save their life
Should crown molding be avoided if your ceilings aren't too high?
even an 8' ceiling looks much better. plus it makes painting walls and ceilings easy as well.
@@HomeRenoVisionDIY Thank you!!
💡WoooW Your Freaking 😎👍🏾❤️⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
YOU sir Spark such Creativity 💡 in Building. And Make it so simple to follow. Also BTW....... You make me want 🆕 improvements. I had ...NO CLUE I ABSOLUTELY HAD TO HAVE 🤣👍🏾.
I have to tell ya a lil secret though. bc, as I'm OFTEN🙄told🤷🏾♀️⁉️❔⁉️ I.... CAN be 🤏🏾👀 a lil too Honest..... LmCao... Anyway My FAMILY DOESNT LIKE YOU VERY MUCH RIGHT NOW 🤣👍🏾because of how fabulously Easy🤞🏾😎 you make every project look. So each time I get my alert that there is a new Video uploaded. They are trying to take away my phone 🤳🏾📵 and ban my RUclips access. 🤷🏾♀️😂
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⚠️ " You Know, 5% sure 🤔 I SHOULD REALLY come wit a F😏n WARNING 🤐LABEL 🏷️⚠️
All those DeWalt tools just make me drool… what were you saying?
Try not crossing your arms while making a cut. Hat to get that arm in the blade
Why did the video jump at 13.33 when you couldn't get the mitre to fit 😂
@15:43 Tell me about it. Brand new home over half a mill and I'm finding crap that angers me everyday!!! I guess I have a lifetime to perfect it ehh? 🤦🏾♂️
I've been cutting corners all my life.
How can you do without that cutting machine?
It won't be as tight a mitre with a mitre box and a hand saw. But some caulk and paint etc
@@CiaranCoffey Can you do a video that shows how to do it without the machine. So many people doesnt have that machine.
Get a used saw. They are cheap. You will never get a good result with a mitre box and hand saw. Plus it will take forever.
clear as MUD
LMAO yeah.....that's the way he rolls.
Learn carpentry skills. Listen to finish carpentry or insider carpentry on YT. Also learn which side to cut with the miter on inside n outside corners. Not what you think.Caulking is no big deal. Just don't nail in the design of the mldg. Will be hard to cover brad heads.
It makes no sense to cut upside down.
Very knowledgeable, but going through too fast without a clearer explanation.
Is it just me, or is your technique a bit sketchy at times. You hold the right side with your left hand and cut with your right hand. That's a great way to one day chop something off, no?
People here in Miami stop installing crown moulding they even pay you to remove it
What do you mean? Explain more please.
Why, what the reasoning behind the request to remove?
@@biney-animemmanuel2360 I am guessing they either don't install anything at all to transition from the wall to the ceiling or they do something more quick and simple. My house has 1x4, oh and I live in Texas.
@@poeticsilence047 I just redid my walls and ceilings, and am in Texas as well. We just did inside drywall corners and a thin bead of caulk. The walls meet the ceiling directly without any trim at all. I think it's all just preference. It would have been much easier to do crown lol.
say that!
Fu
Usually your demos are great. This one was terrible. All you did was hurry through a bunch of cuts not showing what you were trying to achieve. Should’ve taken each cut to the specific corner & show why you were cutting it that way, bring it back & show why you did it that way. I was totally confused.
i am sorry bro but crown molding is so 1990s
great news most houses in america are still in original condition built before the 80's.
You're a child
@@HomeRenoVisionDIY but you are installing one, not repairing it.