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PSA: I saw a guy at the Milwaukee Tool show skip the layout and just start cutting trim, and it went bad fast.
He was installing crown in a demo booth and just eyeballed the angles, saying his experience was enough. He ended up with a 3/8 inch gap on the final corner that he had to fill with a ton of caulk. It looked terrible under the bright lights. Who else thinks skipping the math and the story stick is just asking for trouble, even on what seems like a simple job?
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torres.leo6d ago
Ngl, that's the perfect example of pride coming before a fall. You see it all the time with trim, especially crown. A story stick or a quick layout with an angle finder takes two minutes. Trying to fix a bad cut or hide a gap with caulk never looks right, it just looks lazy. That bright light in a demo booth shows every single mistake, too.
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lane.angela6d ago
Yeah, @torres.leo, I learned that the hard way too, so now I just measure twice (or three times, honestly).
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piper_flores695d ago
Read somewhere that @lane.angela is right, caulk can't fix a bad cut when the light hits it just wrong.
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