What Kind Of Nails To Use For Crown Molding

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Solution: A few tips for measuring and laying out a crown project!

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Solution: Here are a few tips for finding studs!

Solution: Typically these are the nails you'll want to use.

Typically y'all'll be nailing to a framed stud wall. Like the image left, the studs volition most probable be xvi" on center for 2x4 walls and 24" on centre for 2x6 walls.

Typically the ceiling joists volition too be either stick framed 12" 16" o/c or 24" on centre trusses.

Sometimes you volition demand to place crown to a concrete ceiling peradventure a brick or block wall or dropped for lighting like we did in this project.

In those cases you lot will fasten the backer to the wall so nail the crown to the capitalist.

Some tricks of the trade:
Use a stud finder like the 1 I utilize (on the correct).
On older lathe and plaster walls use the "deep scan" setting on your stud finder
Look for indentations from the drywall screws, yous may be able to locate one or 2 studs and measure from there.
Locate an electrical plug most electricians are right handed and the boxes will be nailed on the right side of the stud.
Expect at the trim closely, yous should be able to run across the nailing pattern, most finishing carpenters smash into the studs.
Knock with your knuckle on the wall, information technology will sound densor over a stud.
Use a 2" or longer finishing blast and movement along the wall at 1" intervals more then two 1/2" down from the ceiling (superlative plates)
One time you've located one stud heart, measure the xvi" or 24" on center (they volition be marked on your tape) for more.
Leave the smash in your first constitute stud and hook the record on that, mark the studs out but below the bottom of the crown.

Nailing into the top plates or studs at the bottom of the crown fastens information technology. Then cross nailing will hold the top tight to near ceilings. You also caulk the tiptop and lesser joints so it'southward quite secure as a sysytem.

Gary's video on crown is very well washed, the whole serial is actually.

Finds copper pipe through1-1/2" drywall and rebar through 3" physical

Molding bar chisel puller. This one simple tool is one of the most important for getting the crown but right in the corners. This and a hammer block.

Go contractor course on your stud sensor, already ain 1 that doesn't piece of work...
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Purchase, beg, borrow or rent an air (pneumatic) or cordless (bombardment) nailer.

Some tricks of the trade:
When you lot measure to an inside corner instead of bending the tape and guessing:
Measure out ten inches place a mark then measure to that line, and add.
Always mark and measure in inches, less confusion for you and your partner.
Mark the measurements and miters on the wall
When marking out your studs utilise 1 i/ii painters tape instead of pencil marks.

Marking example

An example of marker out a project. The marks would be on the wall not on the crown of course. 46m would be a 46 degree miter on the outside corner and a 44 degree miter on the inside @ 44 3/16 long.

Some Tricks of the Merchandise
For 3" RISE or less crown you won't need to mark out the studs as you volition blast into the top plates.
Note: A five" crown may have a 3" full ascent depending on it's spring bending.
Blast into the higher profiles of the crown is is easier for the painter to fill and sand then if yous nailed into a fissure.

Finishing nail sizes

Why utilise a ii" finish nail?
Studs are 3 ane/ii then one/2 drywall, and so your crown say 1/2 minimum.
Electrical wires & plumbing pipe are by code installed to the center of the stud. Where a good stud finder will comes in, is if doubtable a vent or drain especially in a bathroom or above a furnace etc.
You lot don't want to hit either during installation

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When y'all encounter a "d" when looking for nails that means "penny". A 2 inch finishing nail is a 6d for instance.

If you lot see o/c or hear (oh meet) when carpenters talk near buildings that ways "on center" of the object they are discussing. So 16" o/c would be sixteen inches from one center to the next.

You typically smash crown upward with a 2" finish nail with a compressor & finishing gun, outside corners brad nailier & ane" brads with glue.

I've owned the senco angle nailer for years , it'southward lite three.vi pounds, doesn't jamb often, no oiling and easy to set the countersink and there is a hook we can't live without... if y'all are a pro y'all accept to have the angled nailer.

Porter Cable CFNBNS - Iii Nailer and Compressor Combo Kit, this is the kit I bought and use every solar day , 150 psi means information technology runs less and it's just 34 pounds.

This is an example of how nosotros measure for crown. Rather than the lineal footage it's stock length.

Since we do this all of the fourth dimension I use an electronic tape for the estimates, I shoot for the sixteen ft and count up the no. of pieces I need. While I approximate the hrs to consummate.

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This is an instance of our cut canvass.

When marking out your studs utilize 1 1/ii painters tape instead of pencil marks.

Cut Sheet Principles
one. Lay out the shape of the room
(this helps with upside downward cutting)
2. Always inches
iii. Instead of going to 1/6ths use plus and minus. (Nosotros even go to "pilus" for 32nds) Ex: 22-3/iv+H (22-25/32)
Annihilation other than a 45 miter put it on the sheet, Ex: 23 D (degrees)
four. Write the length on the back of the crown and so you lot'll know where it goes.

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A scarf joint (before paint)
(see the FAQ folio on how to cut this type of joint)
1. If you have to put a joint in crown to extend it'southward length, you apply a "scarf" (left, It is a over lapping joint).
2. The meridian overlap is invisible when washed correctly so place this side of the joint to the light source when possible, or to the side of the room used the almost.
3. Splice it over a stud and mucilage.
iv. Cutting it at a vertical xc with the back to the fence non while at a bound angle, equally this will create an bending and be more noticeable.