After doing a very careful and tedious
takeoff on the moldings for a large
Colonial-style house, I suspected my
computer when it returned a total of
over 20,000 linear feet of trim. But
after checking and rechecking that my
numbers were correct, the same total
continued to pop up. So I began concentrating
on how my crew was going
to miter and cope over three miles of
crown molding. I dearly needed some
tips that would speed things along in a
cost-efficient manner, and went to my
crew for advice. This article is really
about their ideas.
Copious Copes
On this project, all the inside joints
had to be coped. In a coped joint, one
length of molding