How To Cope Crown Molding Inside Corners

To cope crown moulding for inside corners you will need a mitre saw a coping saw a mitre box a pencil and safety goggles.

Then make the cope to fit into it. On the mitered cut mark the edge of the crown moulding profile with a pencil to give you a line to follow with your coping saw. On the first wall cut crown moulding for a butt joint in the corner. Cut your first piece of crown molding and put it on the wall you may want to cut it at 0 degrees with a 30 degree bevel for the backing get a piece of flat wood scrap smaller than the crown molding.

The concept is explained and then a demonstration of the cut is performed. In this case to the right. Then make your cut just as you would for an inside corner. There are two ways to cut crown molding for an inside corner.

The joinery is tighter and coping is faster than mitering. This method works best for perfect 90 degree corners where you don t need to worry about compensating for strange angles. How to hand cut a coped joint in crown moulding. The best way to make baseboard or crown molding fit together perfectly at inside corners is to cut a coped joint a joint where one piece is cut square and the other piece is cut to fit over it so that even if the corner isn t square and they almost never are the joint will look tight.

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Cut a cope a little long and snap it in place it will close up even tighter. If a mitered molding is too long the long point will bury itself in the drywall making it impossible to mate the miter joint. First set the miter saw s table to 45 degrees in the direction the piece will run. If you do cut miters for inside corners each piece must be cut precisely the right angle and length.

The first method is to cut 2 pieces at an angle and fit them together. Then nest the crown upside down as if the saw s base was the ceiling and the fence the wall. A coped joint is sometimes used when crown mouldings meet at inside corners. And if you cut that square end a 1 16 in.

How to cut piece 2. To make sure you have no gaps in your crown molding here are 15 easy steps you can take to correctly fill in the joints in crown molding. A cope will cover all of it but the very bottom edge. Coped joints help cover irregularities more effectively than mitred joints.

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