I am planning on replacing the molding in my house. My house currently has plain 3 inch (?) molding and I want to go up to 4.5 inch. One small problem I see is the casing around 2 doors. The doors are on a corner of 2 perpendicular walls. If I go to 4.5 inch casing molding there isn’t enough room to have it on both doors because they are both that close to the corner. What is the common practice here? Rip down one of the casing in 1 door so that I can have a full casing and a partial on the other? Shave down both so that they are even? Just use smaller width casing?
I should also mention I am going to go with a miter less casing with a header and footer block.
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Rip the two verticle casings at a little less than 45° so the faces touch. Crosscut the header the same in the corner. Or cope the inside corner with the headcasing.
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A 4.5" case is pretty wide, unless your doors are also big. I'd go for the 3" casing before going for fancy joinery. Mitering them may not be so easy, unless the walls are perfectly plumb and square. I do a lot of trim work and I don't see plumb square walls that often, especially in corners where the dry wall mud tends to get left on thick.
Sorry, the casings are 3 3/4. I am doing basemolding also and that is 4.5 inches. I got the 2 mixed up
Thanks for the replies.
OK, 4.5 is an OK base and 3.75 is OK for casing.
If 3.75 won't fit in the corner, you'll need to rip it down to fit.Recommending the use of "Hide Signatures" option under "My Preferences" since 2005
Also, make sure your header blocks are a true 4". They need to stand proud of the casing somewhat.
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It looks nicer to have all the casing stock even, when the two perpendicular doors are going to register with each other . Otherwise it's going to look like a mistake. Take into account any other casing in the area and avoid discrepancies in the overall height of the finished product that will visually register. It's better to cope an inside corner than a mitre IMHO. Mitres tend to open up on an inside corner. You could even put the inside corner together first then install it.
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