As with all trim secured to old plaster walls locate the studs.
Hanging crown molding on plaster walls.
Cut the first piece square.
I can still give you some great ideas for hanging on plaster walls.
If you don t have picture rail or don t want to install some that s just fine.
I repaired the plaster and have painted the walls and now want to put new crown molding up.
Make a marking gauge the same size as the crown then use it to position the crown on the rail.
Before installing crown molding test fit a piece of molding in place image 1 and mark the height of the molding where it meets the wall below the ceiling.
One of the previous owners had tried to put up crown molding but the job was unfinished and looked bad so i pulled it down.
Fastening crown molding directly to walls can be a headache but well fastened rail trim makes nailing the crown foolproof.
The number one trick to cutting inside and outside corner crown molding is to cut each piece upside down with the ceiling side on the bottom and the wall side on the top image 1.
Well obviously that was just a misfire so we upped the pressure in the tank and fired a few more.
If you think something is too heavy then it s best to mount it in a more secure way to the wall.
Hanging without picture rail.
Use a level or laser level to extend this mark along the walls from corner to corner image 2.
Install baseboard along the floor at the base of the walls.
The furring strips add more stability to the larger heavier crown molding and greatly simplify nailing the molding to the wall.
The nail came out of the gun into the crown molding and then did a 180 against the plaster walls and came back.
Position the molding in the desired location on the wall.
This type of molding was once an elegant way of hanging artwork on hard to penetrate plaster walls.
There were lots of holes chips and cracks in the plaster where they had nailed the molding in the plaster.
Popular in new england and southern townhouses during the victorian era picture rails may seem.