How To Install Polystyrene Base Moulding

Lightweight, Cream Molding Can Exist Put Up by One Person in a Couple of Hours

This post is in partnership with Artistic Crown. The opinions are my own.

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If you honey crown molding but have been put off by the idea of hammers, nails, compressors, hoses and nailing guns, and then polystyrene crown trim could exist just what yous've been looking for.

Sent Right to My Door
No trip to the abode improvement center or lumber yard is necessary. The molding I used for this projection arrived in a single carton. The sections were viii feet long and, quite literally, low-cal as a feather.

Cuts Cleanly with a
Miter Saw
A standard miter saw slices through this material in a flash. The molding can be cut in the vertical position with a 45-degree miter setting or in the horizontal position using a bevel cut.

Look, No Nails
No fasteners of any kind are needed. Instead, the molding is secured in identify with simple painters' caulk that's practical in beads to the dorsum of the material. Hand pressure is all that's needed to bail the trim to the wall. This is particularly helpful when having to install the crown behind built-in cabinets that cannot be moved.

Working Alone?
No Trouble. Because the sections are a manageable viii feet in length and so lightweight, it's unproblematic to work solo. An entire room can be completed in just a couple of hours. Creative Crown besides makes molding that works equally well on cathedral or vaulted ceilings.

Smoothen Cease. Crisp Profiles.
This new generation of polystyrene is glass shine. Right out of the box it can exist painted with one coat. Painting can exist done later installation past masking the walls and ceiling, only I found it simpler to paint beforehand. The traditional crown details are sharp and make clean.