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Custom Molding, Window Casing, and Coves

The front room of the Manhattan Brownstone is getting its finishing touches as prefabricated oversize cove molding is installed at the ceiling. This molding is made of plaster and fiberglass strands to make it sturdy but light. The windows are then finished with a casing the depth of the masonry wall. Once it is nailed in place, the Victorian profile molding can be installed around the window and up to the cove molding at the ceiling. These high-profile moldings can now be made of one piece of wood, but the Victorians would have layered different profiles, one on top of the other, to achieve the same look. The molding is set with panel adhesive then nailed in place. This traditional window casing design features a header and casing running down to a plinth or decorative block at the base.

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Custom Molding, Window Casing, and Coves

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" Patrick are you ready to put that in place -- it's a -- all right now let's watch this is basically a pre fabricated. Cold and oversized cove. That the prepared for it basically goes up against the doubled up ceiling and gets. Fastened just with sheetrock screws area. -- They doubled up the ceiling. Right at the point where it touches so that you get just the right treatment. And you look close up -- this evening the product itself is curved and it's made out of plaster and fiber glass strands which give it the strength that it has and of course it can be cut to fit it. This -- a matter that. And god. We can't put the next piece of cove up there until we've got the casing and and before we do that the construction has been made to receive. You know what is essentially. Half inch thick case that goes all around here this is tightly insulated and down here instead of radiators we put in slant fin in -- heating. Which will be covered with a radiator cover but now up comes this thing I'd better get out of the way. And it's. This will in case the -- the depth of the masonry walls. Let's take up not to -- And as soon as I definitely. Now in the Victorian era of heavy molding like this isn't made -- of three different parts of the and here we've just cut it so that it's all one piece of wood and this is the header piece and are we ready to put up the sides. There's -- all right. Panel adhesive and nails. I give up. Always a little bit of glue. On the ends. Well. And then the final piece. Will be put in place over here and will rest upon. Eight plinth block but we don't have now and yet at the bottom we just have a temporary. Plinth block in place but this will be a very traditional. Casing design. Thanks else."

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