Serious question, has anyone else spent a whole day trying to get a perfect miter on a 12-foot crown molding run only to realize your wall corners weren't square?

I just wasted 8 hours and a bunch of oak molding because I kept recutting the angles instead of checking the wall itself first, which was off by almost 3 degrees.

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bennett.vera7d ago

Feel your pain, that's a classic rookie move. Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt and then used it as a rag to wipe up my tears. Always check the walls first, they're never straight.

davis.ruby7d ago

That "bought the t-shirt" line is too real. The real kicker is when you realize the floor isn't level either, so you're fighting two different kinds of wrong. You can shim a cabinet to a wall, but then your countertop looks like a skatepark ramp. It's a puzzle with pieces that were cut by a drunk guy.

alex3076d ago

Oh man, telling people to check the walls is good advice, but honestly floors are usually the bigger problem. I mean, walls can be out by like half an inch over eight feet, but I've seen floors that are a full inch off across a kitchen. You can scribe a cabinet to a wall way easier than you can fix a floor that's trying to make your fridge look like the Leaning Tower.