How Do You Use A Coping Saw On Baseboard Trim?
One of the most difficult things to get right when laying baseboard trim is how to join “inside corners” (the four corners of a room). For protruding “outside corners”, you can usually just miter your trim at 45 degrees to make it fit. But inside corners are usually not square, which means a simple miter won’t give you a tight fit. Here, the solution is a coping cut, where trim on one side of the corner is installed flush to the end of the wall, and the other side is cut in profile so it fits around it. Measure and cut the end of the your first piece of baseboard trim on your miter saw, set at 90 degrees, so it’s a straight cut across the width. Install the piece onto the wall with your trim nailer, so the straight-cut end of it is sitting tightly against the adjacent wall. Set your second piece of trim on the saw platform in the way it will go against the wall. Swivel the blade of the miter saw to 45 degrees inward (toward the body of the trim). Make the cut. It should leave an expose
