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Installing Baseboards and Window Casings

Bob meets with Ryley to install baseboard and window casings. Bob discusses a few time saving techniques and the various cuts used to get a good fit. Ryley measures out a window and adds a new casing.
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Installing Baseboards and Window Casings

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" When you're installing baseboard with the top molding like this. You have well you have more work in -- way but it does say he's some aspects of the job if you have an outside corner you do want to miter it could you don't want to see that green and of the wood. If you have an inside corner it doesn't matter you can but the two pieces together because molding is gonna hide them right. Now of course the tough part is getting these. Miter cuts to. Line up and matched perfectly how to do that wealth that we're gonna go right tonight a box of -- And mark on this when you're already right -- mark on this one case. You to cut the outside corner -- the outside going to first and then that would cut the inside kind of difficult. That's one of our outside on it right now that the opposite of that pocket knife. An argument -- promoting in the back. Too good guys might watch this because that is the law. And now we're just gonna cut inside of that cult got to -- Now who want to -- inside. Corner. Which is. Basically what we're after is this profile right here into the party coming from the material. And this is what won't take out. That's called coping at the Carlton name to what went back and -- to pit."

" When of the simplest tools you can own it we had but one of the most invaluable when. OK so."

" It's. Not birthplace. -- opposite. -- And in the piece that we've coped. Which it's good and tight now if you had mitered these two. Once you did nail them into the wall they would separate from that's the problem and inside like that. All right let's talk about the window that's as simple double hung window now what's the first step and trimming out resting on it -- it gets to cap on. And that comes with the -- some -- of milled would work that's right that's right and then as a kind of group and we're going to take a profile of the -- thing. And just call it right in place where it's gone through keep a sample of shortcut up the casing stock which yet one -- or -- that dormitory yet using it to guide yourself there right we want the the years ago by. Required of -- anything they. Well -- requirements and passed it that's what happens to. You have to get it into the groove there you've got a lot of extra plaster here right -- forgotten and uses that is correct. -- is that distance that the weight is holding it way. It won't it. -- that that's how much of the wood has to be removed and which cut what do you make first that. Removing that or making the end cut the first thing will be to remove this and cut. And then we're gonna take the profile that we want you put it on and cut for -- right and that angle. OK what sorry it is. But it's usually my box to cut to -- to -- and take. The waste out."

" Book about the that."

" And the reason I'm going to do this first before we cut this excess off. In case you get any splintering. Right here it comes not from the waist. Now do the same thing on the other side. That was clearly needs to go in just a little bit more right OK conceded hit rating. I didn't think I can take that up with a wood --"

" Club. It should that."

" All right now I'm just gonna learn. You just so happens that guy who had these casings -- already -- of it -- to cap on. Good -- inside -- the -- itself as your guide theater really need to put a level up against. That's right we just do not quite a benchmark and a reveal on June. And present. And gone yes it was -- him that into the bottom of the case."

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