fixing sloped ceiling crown molding disaster
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Crown molding on an angled ceiling?
Comments (3)Hi, we had the same problem. I had some woodworking experience and did some of the smaller rooms in our house but this really gave me a hard time. So I hired a local carpentry contractor http://www.drayconstruction.com they were able to do the whole lower portion of our house with the angled ceilings and 3 upper rooms in a day. What they did was explain to me two ways of doing it the explanation that I easily understood was when the contractor Danny pulled one of our framed pictures off of the wall, layed it on the floor and lifted one side up, showing me that all the joints will align if the high side of the crown is rolled up on the wall and the lower side is rolled downward. The other way is to cut a small pie piece on top and bottom. We chose to do the first way. Hope this helps Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.drayconstruction.com...See MoreCrown Molding For Cosmetic Truss Uplift Fix
Comments (12)handymac, thank you for the suggestion. If it's what I think it is, I remember seeing it on This Old House's website where Tom Silva was putting up crown. He was going to nail it the normal way because the tutorial wasn't about truss uplift. But the same triangular-wedge 'cripple' could apply I think. The key, if I'm interpreting you correctly, is to nail the 'wedge' only to the ceiling and then nail the crown in the center of the wedge angling the nail up so as not to catch any of the wall. It's definitely worth a try. The only difficulty I can foresee is being able to nail that wedge into the ceiling and hoping the truss bottom (forget the term now) is right on top of - or at least overhanging a bit - the joist(?). You know, the structure at the top of the studs. Again, not sure of the term. If we don't catch that truss wood when nailing the 'wedge', which will be holding the crown, then we'd either be nailing into that joist and defeat the purpose or just nailing into ceiling drywall! I agree that those ring-shanks are the way to go for the wedge. So, perhaps that'll cover our a$$es if we don't catch wood. lsst, I've heard about that 'stretchy' caulk. Never tried it though. I think seasons and seasons of using regular caulk - that ultimately separated - kind of shied us away from anything that even had the word "caulk" in it. :( But I'll check it out again. If you have the name of the product you used, I'd really appreciate it. green-zeus, yes, that's the key to putting up crown for this purpose. Nailing it to the walls would defeat that purpose. As I said, the problem, thus far has been trying to figure out how to only nail it to the ceiling. The top nail surface on any crown doesn't leave much fudge room to nail w/o splitting the wood. But, handymac's suggestion sounds doable. At least it's worth a shot! :) I'm still curious if anyone's tried that peel-n-stick or polystyrene formed crown. Maybe I should make a separate post for that. Thanks again!...See MoreCrown molding with sloping ceiling?
Comments (6)Its not hard to install crown with peak angles it requires a solid been there carpenter. I often turn down these jobs for the reasons posted above. Likely NOT meant to be in your home and the end result usually a goofy afterthought of which I dont want my name passed along on it when the neighbor comes in and asks? who did the crown for you"? and walton you need to ramp up your game here on the hooz to include sharing pictures...See Moredifferent height base cabinets. wall cabs not straight. crazy crown
Comments (21)Those look like very expensive cabinets being inset face frame and all the moldings. I think it looks great if it is your style that your business. I understand with wrapping cabinets it makes leveling or whatever word you want to call it difficult. Problem is sometimes you have to pick you visual doing that you want levels and to have the correct measurements. I agree that the counter to cabinet top should be it. If the counter is level then the measurement to the top of the cabs should also be level and the ceiling should not throw that off as the cabs were hung level then the moldings were added. I think you are correct in saying there is an issue at the point of measure. If your counter is level then 17" up from that should be level as it is parallel to the counter. If the ceiling is off it will effect the ceiling to cabinet top which again is parallel to the counter level. It should be off at the ceiling to crown measurements. You can go on Amazon and buy a laser level and tripod for about $150 and then will shoot a line across the entire room. You can start at counter height and work your way up to see where it is off. Picking a backsplash without a design that make this very visual will be difficult and the installer should have stopped and told you that. Hiding it and walking away for the next trade to deal with isn't professional. You have a valid concern it isn't an IKEA kitchen....See MoreSina Sadeddin Architectural Design
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