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Took me 7 years to realize I was cutting crown molding upside down
I was over at my buddy's shop helping him trim out a living room in St. Paul. He watched me set up my miter saw and just started laughing. Said 'dude your crown is upside down, the flat edge goes against the fence not the ceiling side.' I had been cutting it with the decorative edge facing up for years because that's how it looked in my head. Every single corner I'd installed was backwards and I never caught it because paint hides a lot. Anybody else have one of those dumb moments where a pro pointed out a basic thing you'd been messing up forever?
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taylor.brooke9d ago
Look, I get that you feel dumb about this but honestly does it even matter that much? I've been hanging crown for like 15 years now and I still catch guys arguing over which way is right depending on their saw setup. The real test is if the seam looks clean and the angles match up. If you were getting tight joints and the paint covered everything then who cares if you had the spring angle flipped in your head? That's just a matter of preference at that point, not a fundamental mistake. Paint and caulk fix a lot of sins in trim work, I've seen guys install crown with exposed nail heads and nobody notices until you point it out. You probably saved yourself a headache not overthinking it for 7 years honestly.
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noahwood9d ago
Seven years with the spring angle backwards and the joints still tight? That's wild, I've seen guys chase a 2 degree error for hours and give up. If the seams looked clean and the paint covered it, then honestly the only sin here is that you worried about it all that time. Your saw setup just worked with however you were holding it, so who cares what the numbers said on paper.
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williams.luna9d agoMost Upvoted
Seven years of blissful ignorance sounds like a win to me, especially if the alternative was chasing a ghost in your saw setup for hours. I've spent entire afternoons trimming a piece by a 32nd of an inch only to realize the wall was bowed the whole time. If it makes you feel better, I once built an entire kitchen island with the wrong measurement because I read the tape upside down and nobody ever noticed. Caulk and paint are basically the trim carpenter's safety net, and you just played a seven year game of trust falls with them.
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