How to bend
Wood Trim Moulding
How to Bend Trim Around a Curved Surface
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hey David merch again at house Barry mr.
cop today we're going to show you how to
curve molding multi trimmer around a
curved surface when you show you how to
do a job and save a lot of money in the
process
upstairs in in the other staircase came
with already pre bent wood molding
yeah this is the staircase I was talking
about it came with molding that was this
is wood and it was bent if this whole
staircase was shipped in is in one piece
and so from the factory came with this
this molding that was already steamed
bent and we don't have the opportunity
to to bend wood with steam so we're left
with two different options and that
would be to take a piece of wood and cut
the back side of it kerf cut it all
right in the backside to make it so it's
a little a little more flexible to bend
it around there or what we've elected to
do is use a piece of PVC trim and use a
blowtorch and kind of get the PVC trim
hot enough then we can bend around the
curve and accomplish the same the same
look alright so we're going to use this
you can see this this is a PVC tram it's
an outdoor tram which the PVC makes it
has a wood look to it and it's real nice
but because it's PPC it should Bend
if I get too close it scorches it if
this is the back no one's going to see
it but nonetheless I don't have to smell
it so much oh yeah definitely do this in
a room that has a ventilation because
it's Ed stinks
they've been at this a few minutes it
just takes it's very slow but it's doing
the job you can see you know it gets
scorched but it sets up pretty quick and
you know it's no worries
[Music]
okay I think we're there I think it's
we'll take it in well it's still pretty
pliable take it make sure got shepherd's
crook here so long as it doesn't snap
feels it still feels pretty pliable I
think that'll do the trick
let's go see all right so we got this
post event and now I just want to free
fit it get it as close as we can so
we're looking like about two inches to
get to touching so let's take a couple
inches off here that would get me a
little closer there this is a this
recording with a multi-tool it's a real
must-have tool it does everything it
does everything well so we got them we
have a link to that in our description
below
[Music]
yeah I think a little more bending yeah
a little more bending I think we're
gonna bend it over here a little more
that sides decent so we're gonna Bend
here all right let's go do it
[Music]
all right so I'm closer now and I can
see right here I need to have a lot of
soft spot about here to be able to tuck
this one in a little more and then it's
tight here and I'm going to go ahead and
and do a little more bending right here
all right I've been working in the
garage and when I'm look torching it
it's it's the flame is being fought by
the cold temperature in the garage it's
like 25 outside so I want to see if I
can help heat this whole entire thing up
and give it a little little more
softness I don't want to stick it in the
fire I'm just trying to get it warm and
the heat that comes out of here is
pretty pretty substantial so that's it's
all about experimentation so we're just
giving it a shot
amazingly this is doing a whole lot
better job than the blowtorching because
it's getting it's getting very pliable
see how it's and I'm just letting the
overall thing heat up and I think what
we'll do is we're gonna run downstairs
before it gets set and we'll have a lot
better shot at this okay we're pretty
we're pretty well in there kinda about
as tight as I can get it and I'm hoping
the screws gonna pull it tighter now we
could have done kerf cuts all these
little cuts in here and bent this easier
a little maybe even a little easier the
problem is we wanted a fairly smooth
clean top and so we elected to try to
use heat to do it he thought would work
like a dream but we don't own one so
we're using the fireplace the very place
actually worked really well above the
fireplace not in it anyway
we've got pretty tight so I'm just gonna
apply some screws here hopefully pull it
tight here first and then either side
and we should be done we're gonna change
screws we were having problems because
there's no threads on the top of this
screw and so it was just spinning and so
now we've got a screw to head spreads
all the way to the top and that's
alright we finished up the project as
you can see it turned out real real nice
it just took a lot of patience in
getting it in getting it bent and using
heats the secret front probably a more
intense with slow heat like like a heat
gun would be the perfect trick but we
did good with what we had this is a
luxury vinyl plank floor and you're
supposed to have a quarter inch gap
around everything for expansion and
contraction well that looks really ugly
that's why we did this piece of trim and
bending around the curve was was clearly
a little bit of a challenge but it's
actually very doable and dressed up the
the bottom of the staircase quite nicely
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