The ceiling baguette fastens in corner between wall and ceiling. It frames ceiling on perimeter and gives it more strict and accurate form. And also decorates its borders with carved ornament.
It is required to you
- Baguettes, sharp knife or hacksaw, square, miter box
Instruction
1. Measure corners indoors by means of the square. If corners are indoors equal to 90 degrees, you can cut off baguettes by means of the simple plastic or wooden miter box.
2. For this purpose prepare sharp knife or hacksaw with small teeths. Arrange the miter box before yourself.
3. Place the first baguette in the miter box. Insert strip on the left side so that the right face of baguette has slightly crossed extreme left cut of the miter box.
4. Press the upper fixing surface of baguette to external sidewall of the miter box, and press surface to which the baguette will fasten to wall to miter box bottom.
5. Insert knife or cloth of hacksaw into cuts on miter box sidewalls on diagonal.
6. To cut off baguette for internal corner insert hacksaw into the left cut on external sidewall of the miter box, and on internal sidewall in right. To cut face for external corner, insert hacksaw cloth into the right cut on external sidewall and in left on internal sidewall of the miter box. Diagonal has to form corner in 45 degrees with any of miter box sidewalls.
7. Accurately cut off face of the first baguette.
8. Place the second baguette in the miter box. The strip needs to be inserted on the right side so that the left face of baguette has slightly crossed extreme left cut in miter box sidewall.
9. Press baguette surface which it will fasten to ceiling to external sidewall. And the second fixing surface to miter box bottom.
10. Insert hacksaw cloth into the miter box. To cut baguette for internal corner on ceiling, insert hacksaw into the left cut on internal sidewall and in right on external sidewall of the miter box. For external corner insert hacksaw into the right cut on internal sidewall of the miter box and left on external sidewall.
11. Accurately cut off face of the second baguette. Strips of baguettes for the first corner are cut. You can attach them to wall. In the same way you can cut faces of baguettes for other corners.