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Closed baseboard corners
These videos will guide you through each step of cutting your mouldings. For successful cuts, it’s vital that you always work with sharp tools.
- Scarf joints: how to joint two pieces
- Doors and windows: how to cut frames
- Back cuts
- Cutting crown mouldings
- Crown mouldings back cuts
- Closed baseboard corners
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Closed baseboard corners
An important principle with mouldings is that the casing should always be thicker than the baseboard. When this is not the case, we recommend you close the baseboard corner so that it becomes thinner than the frame. You should also close a baseboard whenever it meets an obstacle. To close a baseboard, saw it on a 45° angle on the flat and then cut it on a 45° angle in the opposite direction. Then mark a 90° line starting from the shortest corner and cut along this line to obtain the end that will close the baseboard.
An important principle with mouldings is that the casing should always be thicker than the baseboard. When this is not the case, we recommend you close the baseboard corner so that it becomes thinner than the frame. You should also close a baseboard whenever it meets an obstacle. To close a baseboard, saw it on a 45° angle on the flat and then cut it on a 45° angle in the opposite direction. Then mark a 90° line starting from the shortest corner and cut along this line to obtain the end that will close the baseboard.
