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I have 2 arched openings in my home that were previously trimmed with brown paneling(house built in ’70). I would like to trim it out I/wood instead of just slapping dry wall up. What is the best method, trying to steam bend or buying one of the flexible molding materials they make today?
I don’t know much about either process,so I would appreciate any info.
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Paint or stain grade?
*I prefer the look of natural wood, but I'd go w/ whatever is easiest
*Come on Tim, go for it. How tight a radius and are you wrapping the inside also?
*Timothy,
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*Around here I just call my lumber supplier and he sends out a guy who makes the template, etc. Wait a week or 2 and the guy shows back up with the radius trim - your wallet will be about $80 lighter per peice though. That's for paint grade. I've tried those flex moldings, but they came out wavy... Maybe there is another kind that has a little more rigidity to 'em?
*This is a combination of extruded flex moulding and key of the same material joined with solid wood. The only gripe I had with the flex is although the profiles were an exact match the width of the flex when delivered was almost an eight of an inch less than the wood. Fortunately it was on the outside edge and cannot be detected when installed. No waviness and only a little touch up need to clean out boogers from the deep profile grooves. Six feet of flex and the key was $123.00, picked up at the lumberyard. I did my own template.The customer did not want the other side of the arch done so what would have been wood jambs is a carefully squared and finished mud job.
*Mark, you could tack up some some consecutive pieces from a board over your opening, and run a straight router bit, w/ bottom bearing that bears on the head jamb, through the boards to cut the inside radius, curve, ellipse, whatever. Set a rub post on a bandsaw and cut the outer curve. You'll be limited in profiles you can shape, but you do have some options.Like the man said, go for it...
*Ralph:Looks good! I like the "key stone" at the top. This is often done to hade the joint in the a multi part radius. I like that plinth block (is that the right term?) on the crown too. Only used that setup once before: it was in a situation where the customer had a valted ceiling and wanted crown. It thought it would be darn near imposible to come up with a reasonable miter, and I knew it would make my trim guy unhappy, so I talked the customer into the plinth blocks. Didn't like the way it looked, but I guess that was because I thought crwon on a valted ceiling was a little wierd to start with.
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I have 2 arched openings in my home that were previously trimmed with brown paneling(house built in '70). I would like to trim it out I/wood instead of just slapping dry wall up. What is the best method, trying to steam bend or buying one of the flexible molding materials they make today?
I don't know much about either process,so I would appreciate any info.