I’ve got a job coming up where I have to install crown, all the ceilings are cathedral.
THe insulators just got done spraying the walls and ceilings full, and to cover their holes I am going to install a 1x on the ceiling and wall, then the crown.
I’m looking for suggestions to make this as efficient as possible. I’m probably going to buy a few sections of rolling scafffolding, and use planks in between.
I wanted to preassemble the whole crown and 1x, then cut it all at once, but that would be a pain on the eave and ridge sides, not so much on the rake walls.
I am going to use the corner joints like Basswood posted pictures of in the past, that makes the eave and ridge joints line up nice.
So you trim pros how would you approach this one and make it efficient?
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Another question that is related to this same job, is there anyway that I can minimize shrinking of the trim?
I installed some crown last year in this home and it has shrunk so bad I am ashamed of it. It looks like I used staples to fasten it. I have never seen trim shrink so bad on my life. Its stain grade pine, the shrinking is so bad that it broke the outside miters that I glued and pinned.
It actually shrunk in length and width, nothing I have seen before. The pine was finished on all sides before it was installed and the oak 1x and crown is being finished right now.
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Edited 2/14/2008 6:46 am ET by MattSwanger
The biggest trick with cathedral ceiling crown is making the turn from the eave side to the rakes. You need a little triangle-shaped filler to make the turn.
As for shrinkage, keep it out of cold water? Just kidding--stock lumberyard crown may have too high a moisture content. You might have more luck, and get a nicer product, from a local mill shop, or have your yard order you some Windsor One if they don't stock it.
The HO failed to tell me that the ceiling had radiant heat in it, so I'm not sure anything could be done to avoid what happened.
She told me that after I had commented on how bad it had shrunk and I had no explanation as to why.
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radiant in the ceiling and she neglected to tell you? Wow, lucky break (in spite of the shrink) you didn't pierce the cables.
Did you put up the other crown in the humid summer? Running this with of course some acclimation (b/4 finishing) should help keep it in it's smaller state.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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It was lucky.
It was very humid when I installed it, and it came from Lowes.
This new order came from a mill work shop and I'll be installing it in a week or so. Just after I rough in my garage with the man cave attic.
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