Duct Tape Keeps Miters Together
Line up the mitered corners of the trim in out-of-square corners
I recently had to install some base trim on old, out-of-square porch columns. I couldn’t just slap the molding against the four sides of the column and nail them, because the twisted column meant the corners wouldn’t align. Instead, I lined up the mitered corners of the trim pieces, making sure the miters were flush, and then I taped the joints with duct tape. I used my brad nailer with stainless-steel brads to nail through the duct tape to secure the trim. Once I removed the tape, I finished up with a dose of Big Stretch caulk.
—Steve Beese, Winston-Salem, N.C.
Drawings: Charles Miller
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Excellent work you do here. Keep it up!
Thanks for the tip, if Duct tape is not your style, cyanoacrylate (or CA in shorthand) is the fastest setting of all adhesives. A variety of formulations exist from ultra-thin to thick gels, and with setting times that vary from just one or two seconds to over a minute. With an accelerator it is a unbeatable combination and the equal of the all mighty duct tape. IMO
Good job you have done here!