Install crown molding on sloped ceiling

The True Angle tools have the angle dial printed on the tools for direct reading and are available for purchase at www. The ends of your crown should look typically like these photos and, if cut using the miter setting from Table 1, will fit your corner perfectly.

To obtain the ceiling slope, measure the angle between the wall and ceiling at a location where the top of the wall is horizontal. Place your angle measuring tool perpendicular to the wall Fig. You will now use the ceiling slope to determine the corner angles for turns of the crown molding made in a vertical plane i.

Figure 10 is a typical installation of crown molding on a cathedral ceiling. The crown is installed with a combination of horizontal and vertical turns.

The combination turns horizontal and vertical will look like Fig. Notice that crown molding piece No. This is how you will always cut this transition piece when making a horizontal to vertical turn. When cutting vertical plane turns with a miter saw, you will position the bottom of the crown molding held firmly on the saw table Fig.

The angle of the crown bottom of your crown determines the crown spring angle. That is why it is so important to hold the bottom firmly against the fence for horizontal turns or firmly against the saw table for vertical turns.

There are four cuts that you can make in the vertical plane just like there are four cuts that you can make in a horizontal plane i. To obtain the corner angle for joints B and D Fig. You can also measure thecorner angle for joint C directly with your degree protractor Fig. When you have a sloped ceiling where crown piece No. You would get your miter saw setting from Table 1. The crown molding cuts for vertical turns plane of the wall will look like these templates Fig.

I highly recommend that you make yourself a full set of eight crown molding templates, label them and use them as a guide to prevent cutting your crown molding backwards. Make the longest edge about 3 inches long. The difference between using a compound miter saw has blade tilt adjustment versus a miter saw is that you can lay your crown molding flat on its back, face up and set a miter and blade tilt angle.

Table 1, of course, will not work because there is no blade tilt angle in Table 1 and the crown molding is not propped up. This flat surface is created using regular lumber. The regular lumber can just extend out and above the crown molding or it can do that and actually return vertically to intersect the vaulted ceiling.

Either way, you better have some moderate to expert carpentry skills. These illustrations should help you visualize what you need to do to accomplish the task. Would you like step-by-step photos and instructions that show you how I install crown molding anywhere in a home? But, if you want to actually see me install crown molding in all the same places while watching an action-packed interactive DVD that was filmed in High Definition, then you may want my Crown Molding DVD.

Click here to watch a video on cutting crown molding the easy way. The slope of your ceiling will determine which method works best for you. Steeper sloped ceilings are problematic because the horizontal pieces of crown molding may not fit well against the wall or the sloped ceiling. Two types of molding are routinely used to trim vaulted ceilings. Finish the molding before cutting and installing.

Stand at one wall where the ceiling slopes down to meet it. Place an angled tape measure at the seam between the ceiling and wall. Pull it out so it measures the the sloping portion of the ceiling. Take this measurement.

You can paint the walls before or after installing the molding. Crown molding does not always have to be installed against both the wall and the ceiling. For a fun effect, consider installing the crown only against the wall and moving it downward about a few inches. The gap you create at the top provides a V-shaped pocket that can disguise speaker wires or LED tape lighting.

Crown Molding can lead to increased home value and a positive ROI depending on how much you have invested in the project. Many homeowners want easy projects that will increase their resale price, and you can do that by adding crown molding. The moulding has flat edges where it touches the wall and ceiling. Chris Marshall: Crown molding is typically cut upside down on a miter saw so the narrow edge that will rest against the wall butts against the saw fence and the top edge of the molding that will meet the ceiling rests on the saw table.

Cut at a degree angle. This will create space for the coped piece to fit tightly against the square-cut piece. We set our miter saw to the left side 45 degree mark and held the crown molding such that the lip that would touch the ceiling was sitting flat on the compound miter saw and the lip that touches the wall was pointed away from the fence.

The long portion of the crown molding should extend out to the right of the miter saw as shown in the illustration to the right. In our illustration we always set it to Anytime your ceiling slopes down and runs into a wall you are going to need a small, pie-shaped, transition piece Cut 4 and Cut 5 in our illustration. This tutorial has been written in a way that does not require the use of a compound miter saw, so if following these steps keep your bevel angle set to zero.

Be patient and don't worry about it being perfect -- caulking is perfect for hiding small gaps, holes, and little mistakes! Return to the How to Install Crown Molding page. Visit the Crown Molding department. Cut 3: Our third miter cut was done on the same crown molding piece as Cut 2. For this piece we kept the saw at the right side Once again, we held the crown molding such that the lip that would touch the wall was sitting flat on the compound miter saw and the lip that touches the ceiling was pointed away from the fence.

For this cut the part of the crown molding where Cut 2 was made extended to the left of the miter saw as shown in the illustration to the left.