How To Hang Trim On Wall

The first step in your shiplap accent wall is to remove everything from the wall including any nails use a putty knife to gently pry and remove baseboards crown moulding and trim.

How to hang trim on wall.

Make sure it lines up evenly with the chalk line on your wall. Before you install your shiplap boards open your boxes and let the flooring adjust to the room temperature and moisture for at least 48 hours. Place the first trim board on the wall on the level line. Tape the wall and floor above and below the trim optional.

How are you going to do that. Remove wall plates and outlet covers. Determine where you d like your wall frame molding to hang and mark on the wall. These measurements will prevent frames that are too large or small.

For a more traditional look add cap molding to the top of the baseboards. Set cap molding atop baseboard trim placing it flush against the wall. The first time you do it it will take longer but once you get the hang of it you ll be trimming out doors like a pro. How to trim a door.

Dry fit the baseboard back onto the floor. Use the same technique to install the cap molding as you would with the shoe molding. You can also take your chances and paint freehand. Both will create bulges that cause gaps around floor trim.

To start this procedure i have already marked the wall at 36 up from the floor again see here for the basics of trim installation. It s easy to install baseboard trim to a concrete wa. At the location of each stud nail a finish nail through the trim and the plaster wall into the stud. When you lay wall molding such as baseboard trim against a wall and see gaps between the top of the wall trim and the drywall it s usually because of a misaligned stud or a built up ridge of taping compound over a joint.

Set the circular saw blade depth to the depth of the board and on a 5 degree bevel with the face of the cut toward the wall. Trim the board along the penciled line. How to install trim on odd angles. Although i know this wall is a 45 degree angle wall i m still going to measure it anyway.

Use scarf joints to splice trim pieces on long walls. Using sandpaper sand the bevel away to create a level cut at the marked line. Travis larson senior editor at the family handyman will show you how to trim a door in about 10 minutes per side. This will allow you to paint the trim quickly without going over the edges.