CROWN MOLDING TIPS Home improvement tips installing crown and interior trim woodworking

This is Chris, the Idaho Painter. In this video, I got a simple tip when it comes to installing interior trim and crown molding, and that's gluing your seams instead of nailing them. So, stay tuned for this video. So, I do own a painting company, BNK Painting, and it is a full-ervice painting company. And what that full service painting company means is we do all of our own drywall repairs and carpentry repairs. And the carpenter repairs on the exterior of the house doing siding repairs and trim repairs. And on the inside of the house, we do a lot of carpentry repairs when it comes to interior trim and crown molding. So, we remove old bad banged up stuff, beat up stuff, and we also install new stuff. And there's a simple trick when it comes to budding two seams together, how you actually go about doing that. And I've learned a whole lot from my friend Richard from DFW Crown, watching his videos on YouTube, and him helping me out. and he's got a simple tip of how you create a joint, a real solid joint without nailing it. And this is a really good trick because I got some cabinets in my house where a previous uh carpenter actually installed the crown molding on the cabinets and damaged the crown really bad by trying to staple the seams together. And I'll show you what that actually looks like. And Richard has this really cool trick of gluing the seams together and getting a glued seam to stick extremely fast and extremely strong strong. So stay tuned for this trick right now. So hopefully you can see this is my kitchen cabinets right here. They were installing the crown molding right here and they tried to shoot pens in it and it actually busted it right here. This is dark cuz we actually stained it to just try to give it an antique look. They stapled it right there and it busted off a piece of the crown right there and it's actually not held together and it's got to be repaired. That's what you call some bad carpentry work. So, we got another look at a crown seam right here and it's been shot and nailed right there, which because of the holes, we had to putty it. And instead of shooting pins like that, it's a lot better to actually glue it so you don't actually have those nail holes that got to be filled. Even if it's going to be painted, way better to glue it. So, watch this trick. Gluing crown. Hey, thanks a lot, Chris, for having me on the channel. I really appreciate it. I've been watching your videos for about five or 6 years now. Learned a lot of stuff. I got a real quick tip today for everyone out there. And that's how I glue up my trim. The way I do that is I use cyanoacrylate glue. And the short term is CA glue. It's a two-part glue with a glue itself and an activator. And what I've got right here behind me is a outside corner for crown molding and I need to do a return because the ceiling drops off. So instead of having to hold all those pieces up there and nail them in place, this Sino acrylicate glue really helps me get that done. And I'll show you right here how to use it. So here's the pieces that I need to glue up. This is the return. I've already glued this together. And just trying to break it apart is very hard. I can't do it. So, the glue works great. This is the return, the end cap. Then it'll hook to my short run. I'll glue it to that. And then I'll glue that to my long run, this outside 45. So, first thing I'm going to do is take that CA glue, the glue itself, and I'll run a small bead down the middle. That way, if there's any squeeze out, it it'll be limited. And then I'll take and I'm always going to start with my short pieces first rather than my big long one. So I'll take that. And now here's what I do. People do this differently, but I'll actually activate the be the bead. Now some people like to activate the mating side. I just like to do it this way. I think it works better. Then you'll just spray that on there and a chemical reaction takes place where it starts to dry instantly. Hence the name Instacure. And that is no joke. I mean, that's already just like that. It's about 8 seconds, they say. And it usually doesn't even take that long. So, I'll go ahead and glue this one on here, and then we'll be ready to install this piece of crown. It's important to move quick cuz you don't have much time. And we are good to go with that. And just like that. I mean, I can actually just hold this out and it's not going to fall on me. So, this works awesome. We use this stuff all the time. If you've ever watched my channel, DFW Crown, you know I use this stuff all the time. So, I will go ahead and install this piece and show you that right now. So, we went ahead and tacked up that corner over there. And we did that off camera just so we could get that corner right. So, what we'll do here now is just we'll push this up into place like that. And all we got to do now is just install it. We use a 18 gauge brad nail and we shoot in a V pattern. And that's how easy that is to install an outside corner. And you see the benefits of that glue.