How To Cut Baseboard Trim Using A Miter Saw - Ace Hardware

Watch as Ace's Home Expert, Lou Manfredini, shows you how to cut trim for a window or door.

Chapters:
0:04 - Intro
0:17 - Project Outline
0:28 - Materials
1:00 - Safety
1:20 - Getting Started
3:58 - Outside Corners
4:34 - Closing

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[GoatBarn]

Good, simple, presentation ( with useful tips!) and under five minutes. Proper emphasis on tool use protocol and safety. Thanks Lou, you do Ace proud!

[gatoborracho]

Thanks to this video... I didn't splash my eyes with blood when I chopped off my fingers with the mitter saw...

[michaelkoltosky]

This is the best video about this topic. I watched dozens of convoluted confusing videos before finding this. Now I have baseboards in my bedroom
And they look great.

Thanks!

[Akscythe]

I use this exact miter saw for work, fantastic tool.

[sammy]

Excellent video, Great information....thank you

[Mace_Lowrey]

This helped me so much. First time doing baseboards and this made it a breeze!

[orangecream]

I can tel u when my boss explained it to me it looked n sounded confusing.. but I understand it now

[davidharrell]

How do you pick the right saw blade? Do you measure for the cutting bricks at the tips of the saw. Do the alignment notches change over time with use? Which tool is the best value?

[tapdancer]

Level 2 pls finesse angles 92 or 88 degrees etc?

[chrismckenzie]

Okay but how do you cut this angle to the line that you measured? Like you just cut the ends of the board. That's obviously easy, but let's see you mark a line in the middle of the board and cut that mark perfectly so that you get your inside or you're outside angle that's the issue I'm having. Keep having a cut multiple times cuz now that the saw is at an angle where do I line the blade up to the line?

[marissaawesome]

Need a cam to show the actual saw and numbers that your using .. Camera is a mile away from you making the cuts

[robertjones]

You didn't show to cut outside corners

[Jdww]

Trying to match the baseboards in my 1920s home. Baseboards are 8" in width. Looking around today at Lowe's. I don't even see a miter saw capable of cutting a width of 8" any advice on what to use?