How to Make the Perfect Miter Cut

Mark Donovan of http://www.HomeAdditionPlus.com explains the techniques for making the perfect miter cut when trimming out interior doors and windows. He demonstrates how to make a miter cut for trimming out door and window trim. How to miter cut crown molding and baseboard trim? The same methods apply.

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hi my name is mark on it from home
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installing interior trim such as door or
window trim is a task most homeowners
can tackle as long as they have the
right knowledge and the right tools for
doing the job
the most important aspect of installing
interior trim is making perfect my cuts
is available to spend a little time with
you show you how to make the perfect
minor cuts again as I said tools of the
most important things you need to think
about
we can make my two cuts using a standard
hand Microsoft and Microsoft box
however the customer on precise your
seams or joints will look
not very clean my presence and you need
to do a professional job is to use a
compound power miter saw this kind of
power minus stock has a 10 inch plate
and allows us to cut angles plus or
minus 45 degrees
it also has the ability to adjust the
blade vertical position well for calm
down
you got the most important tool of any
type of job working on a project like
this
safety glasses so make sure you have a
safety glasses before you started
watching the first thing you want to go
to making a perfect might have cut is
not to make measure
we're making my to cut always want to
make a measure on the interior trim use
a tape measure measure from the base
floor or the stool
it's a wind-up up to the edge where you
want the inside corner to be you make a
mark on the trim board and this will be
your inside edge for the cup
once we've made our measurements on the
true board we're not going to make up in
order to make a perfect might have cut
you want to double back
the edge on the trim board and to do
that you can either adjust the vertical
angle or what I prefer
it's just still use your piece of card
their leg on top of a miter saw and
place it over
this causes the boards and lift up a
little bit which causes the back patch
of the curve
so I line up the mark my cardboard on
the board and make like we repeat the
process the other side
however we need to rotate the top for
the direction we're bored in finer mark
now all we need to do is simply just
confirmed to cut its nice and square
put the two pieces together and as you
can see here we have a nice clean
certainly seemed cut brunch
you can see maybe a little bit that'd be
nice
nice clean cut one should make a perfect
minor cuts all you need to do is touch
up the ends of the boards and then go
ahead and install onto the window or the
door to learn more about calling
interior trim whether the door windows
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your trip
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