How To Cut Floor Molding Angles

Table saw again a great saw for cutting and ripping but may not be best for precise cutting like trim molding.

How to cut floor molding angles. Reduce the angle if the cut is open at the back. Use a miter saw to bevel cut the end at a 45 degree angle. The saw can be adjusted to cut at any angle set it to 45 degrees for one side of a standard 90 degree corner.

If the miter is open on the front increase the cutting angle to about 46 degrees and recut both sides. Also called a chop saw this tool has a fine toothed blade that you pull down on the work piece. Miter saws allow you to create angles for any molding you need for house projects.

The most common baseboard corner is an inside 90 degree corner and the easiest way to install baseboards to fit this corner is to cut two pieces of the baseboard at the edges and at an angle so. If the fit is good nail into place with finishing nails. Slightly angle the blade so that you cut away from the backside of the baseboard.

The cut will reveal the profile of your baseboard. While learning how to cut crown moulding remember. When installing trim such as baseboard and crown molding master craftspeople use this method and you can too.

Coped molding gives the tightest fit best a. Notice that whether the miter is inside or outside it s a right angle either way. This means that the miter is 90 degrees.

As you learn how to cut crown moulding practice with smaller scrap pieces to save frustration later. Be careful to remove only a hair s width from each board. This also means that to make two pieces of molding come together at a 90 degree angle each piece will require a 45 degree cut where the two pieces come together.