The way most people measure for crown molding is off

I was helping my buddy trim out his living room in Nashville last Saturday and he kept cutting his crown molding short by about an eighth of an inch each time. He was measuring from the wall corner instead of the ceiling angle. I showed him to hold the tape against the ceiling and measure from the wall to the opposite wall, not the corner itself. First try after that, perfect fit. Has anyone else run into this where the corner measurement seems right but throws everything off?

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pipergonzalez16h agoTop Commenter

Yeah that corner trick always messes me up too, I learned the hard way haha.

taylor_barnes5912h ago

Learned it the hard way too.

brown.susan12h ago

Read a tip on a DIY blog that matches what @pipergonzalez said about the corner trick being useless.