Cutting Crown Molding For Sloped Ceiling

Make sure your scrap piece fits squarely into the miter saw before cutting.

Cutting crown molding for sloped ceiling.

Standard 45 degree cuts can be used on a sloped ceiling. This usually requires an angle setting of either 32 or 45 degrees. When measuring and cutting crown molding pieces you will also need to take the measurements and angles of filler pieces into account. Crown molding miter cuts.

Crown stops are nice to have in order to help hold the crown while making the cut. Therefore the angle between the wall and the ceiling is 110 degrees. Measure the distance from corner to corner on the first wall. Transfer the measurement to moulding.

Our first miter cut is going to be on the crown molding that will come along the tallest part of the ceiling and then run into the molding that goes down the slope of the vaulted ceiling. The corner angle for joint b is 110 90 200 deg. Use your true angle tool and measure the angle between the wall and the ceiling then add 90 degrees to it to get the actual corner angle for joint b. Use that to determine the exact low point of where the two pieces of crown will touch in the corner on the wall.

Calculating angles and inside corner details for crown applied to sloped ceilings. The inside corner must be cut with the molding upside down in your saw the way crown is normally cut in a miter saw when it s in position but the outside corner of the transition piece must be. This simple cut is how to cut crown moulding to be used in between crown. When using a miter saw to cut crown molding for horizontal ceilings you must prop the crown molding against the fence as shown in fig 2.

Note that crown molding is cut with the miter saw upside down using the saw s table as a guide to fit the molding to an angle equal to that needed to fit with the ceiling. So in the illustration we will be mitering the right side of the crown molding. Our example is a 20 degree sloped ceiling. Continue reading below our video of the day.

Crown molding detail for sloped ceilings. One of the most common methods for fitting crown molding to a slanted ceiling is to attach the molding to a filler piece that is in between. It s best to cut a standard inside corner template as you see in the video above.