What is the correct way to install crown molding?

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Installing crown molding, however, is a task that strikes fear in the heart of every amateur carpenter \ufffd and even some pros. Because it sits at an angle on the wall, each joint is made of compound angles. Getting it right requires a lot of patience, an aptitude for spatial relations, and a few tricks from an experienced pro.

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He [Tom Sliva] also doesn't lay the molding flat to cut it. Cutting crown flat, though it might seem easier, requires a saw that lets you tilt the blade (for the bevel) and rotate it (for the miter angle). You also need a set of tables to know the correct angles for the cuts.

Instead, Tom uses a simple power miter saw and arranges the material so it sits against the saw fence at the same angle it will be nailed to the wall. Although the molding has to be upside down in this method, a simple downward cut of the blade set at 45 degrees produces the perfect miter and bevel at once, as you'll see.

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Inside corners are composed of a square-cut piece that butts the corner, and a corresponding piece that\ufffds cut on an angle and coped (carefully cut along the molding\ufffds profile) to conform to the first piece.

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* Highlight the very edge of the cut, along the profiled front of the molding, with a pencil.
* Next, using a coping saw, cut away the bevel. Angle the coping saw blade toward the rear about 5 degrees \ufffd a technique known as back beveling \ufffd and carefully follow the molding profile as you cut (above). Use the miter saw table to brace the workpiece when cutting.

It's not for the faint-of-heart. There are types of crown molding that don't require complicated cuts, they use various box elements to ease some of the installation to eliminate the coping, etc. Lowes and Home Depot carry the things. But they're not cheap either.

HTH a bit.

Cheers,
Scott.

If the party affects your son's care in a detrimental way, of course you would choose your son over the party.

But now I'm trying to understand how this affect would happen.

Hmm.

Loss of father over a 2 day period.

Something tells me it won't hurt him emotionally or physically, but for all I know you've been the primary care giver, have taken him with you to work every day, and he is so superadvanced (he is YOUR son, ya know) that he's reached the development stage where separation anxiety is an issue.

Party in early July, SETI born in late November, SETI will be about 6.5 months old. Since self-awareness usually kicks in between 8-11 months, I guess it is possible.

What else?

Lack of trust of non-parent caregivers? After all, your wife is a very busy person, which means you guy juggle the care time. If you have no fall-back for someone else doing it, could be an issue. I know I trusted NO ONE with my kids other than Barb and myself for the longest time.

Cost - you make so little that the cost of the trip will cause a balancing act to fail, robbing your child of his food, shelter, and finally his college fund. Hey, if that's the case, I'm sure we could kick in for airfare. ;-}

Lack of stability of spousal unit. Since you never said a bad word about a crazy wife, I doubt that is it.

OK, I don't see it. Maybe there is some indirect aspect of SETI's care that the party will affect.

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