I will be adding moulding and trim to a few rooms after I lay laminate flooring. I have already done this in one room and I was really discouraged with my miter cuts. In most corners, I had a gap of at least 1/4" that I had to fill with caulk even though I set my compound miter saw to 45 degrees.
Does anyone have any advice on cutting better corners?
Best Answer
There are two possible causes for this:
Your room's corners aren't exactly 90°.
Your mitre saw isn't accurate.
Given you mention you are using a compound mitre saw I'm going to go with the former.
Unfortunately with non-square rooms you're going to have to do this by a little bit of trial and error. Use some offcuts of the moulding or even scrap wood to find the exact angles you need and then transfer those to the actual pieces of wood you are going to use.