I've been helping my father in law finish their basement and we've already done all the framing, drywall, electrical, plumbing, painting, etc. What's left is a little trimwork. Last week they decided they wanted wainscoating (sp?) down the stairs to the basement. Finding the angle for the stairs was easy enough and putting up the wainscoating went pretty quick. The problem came with the chair rail....
The steps go down and then wrap around a 90 degree corner (outside corner) and continue down at the same angle again. So you have two angles involved, one going down the steps and the 90 degree angle at the corner. I tried several ways of cutting this but nothing came out correctly. It's got to be possible but I can't get a visual on the math behind it. I drew a quick picture of the wall although it's a little hard to illustrate in 2D. The corner in question is in the orange circle.
What I tried is to get the angle of the slope of the wainscoating (I think it was around 40 degrees or so), set my compound miter saw to that angle and then cut a 45 degree cut on the chair rail. That didn't work out though....
Is this possible?
The steps go down and then wrap around a 90 degree corner (outside corner) and continue down at the same angle again. So you have two angles involved, one going down the steps and the 90 degree angle at the corner. I tried several ways of cutting this but nothing came out correctly. It's got to be possible but I can't get a visual on the math behind it. I drew a quick picture of the wall although it's a little hard to illustrate in 2D. The corner in question is in the orange circle.
What I tried is to get the angle of the slope of the wainscoating (I think it was around 40 degrees or so), set my compound miter saw to that angle and then cut a 45 degree cut on the chair rail. That didn't work out though....
Is this possible?
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