Finally back to working on the house!

First I had to re-vacuum the demolished area of the house to get up the rest of the insulation pieces scattered about.  Then we took the leftover insulation to the dump (this time the insulation guy took as many bags as he could – we still have an attic full of bags of this stuff) – but the dump does take it for a small charge (and it turns out we can fit 7 bags in our truck at a time).

Once the demo area was cleared out we filled it up (with tools this time) – set up the saws and tables in the livingroom and moved the diningroom table out of the gym and back into the diningroom where it “belongs” 🙂

Once the gym was empty we got to work on the crown molding!  We actually decided to change up how we were doing the molding entirely.  Previously we were using a larger molding with a backerboard hidden under it to nail to.  We decided to go with a smaller more flexible molding instead (the next size down) and use a piece of poplar as a decorative part of the molding and as a nailer.  So the poplar is routed on one edge (the visible edge at the bottom) and it’s screwed in to the studs.  Since the top is hidden it doesn’t have to hit the ceiling evenly, making it easier to keep at an even distance from the ceiling with our crazy bowed ceilings.

So it took all day but we got all 4 pieces ripped down to width, routed, coped and installed.  Only one piece came out too small and we had to cut and route a 5th because of that.

base for molding

window wall

all the way around

Close up of the detail and the coping

Tomorrow we’re hoping to tackle the crown molding itself – oh goodie.