Alex Moulding

Crown Moulding - Manufacturing and Installation

AlexMouldings is an industry leader in manufacturin redesigned patterned embossed MDF and Wood crown mouldings and trim in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. For more than a decade we are looking for new ways to serve you better and we made this possible by constantly expanding and improving our services.
Everybody knows plaster crown mouldings for it rich architectural look but what about the cost and mess? These days people have choice of installing a Styrofoam or polystyrene mouldings but how about the quality? The answer is MDF (medium density fiberboard) with density of 600-800 kg/m³ or HDF (high density fiberboard) with density of 600-1450 kg/m³. These engineered wood products are much more durable than other engineered wood boards and the more flexible than wood which allow having nicer corners cuts on uneven and crooked walls.
By comparing all of moulding products on a market we decided to work with MDF, HDF and natural stained wood crown mouldings and trim only. Plaster is great and has variety of designs but we compete with our line of Redesigned Patterned Embossed Crown Mouldings.  Combining different sizes patterns and shapes our clients get any size of the moulding they ask for. Stained Wood crown mouldings are great addition to a home office wainscoting panels or kitchen cabinets or any other room with stained natural wood baseboards.
We don’t mess up with your walls while installing the MDF, HDF or Wood crown moulding comparing to the plaster moulding when after the installation most likely you have to repaint all the walls because plaster moulding installed wet. Repairing plaster moulding means re-plastering it, with wood or MDF all you need just a touch of caulking. Plaster’s popularity start declining when large-scale production of MDF began in the 1980s.
Styrofoam or polystyrene crown mouldings are so week and soft repeats all the curves of crooked walls which makes it look cheap, unprofessional and not satisfying at the end. We do not recommend installing a Styrofoam or polystyrene mouldings and refuse installing it ourselves in despite of the installation process is the same.
 Installing Crown Mouldingis Easy, but don’t get yourself fooled by armatures, finish trim carpenter installer must have an experience to install it right. There always some tools to help us working better but no tool can replace a homeowners’ eye.  Moulding is a delicate part of your trim, and you don’t pay that much attention to your baseboard corners like you do with crown moulding. To insure a long life and attractive look the trim installer must be an expert and pay close attention to details so your moulding won’t crack expand or shrink:
Get right angle. No all corners are 90. They can be 85 or 95 or something else and only are visible after the installation of the trim. Insuring that the right angle is determined allow avoiding too open or too closed corners.
Using adhesive MDF or carpenter’s glue is essential.
Reinforcing, sending and priming all the joints to archive invisibility and durability.
 Properly nail crown moulding to the joists.
Shimming all the loose corners on crooked walls.
Finally caulking and dapping all the holes and spaces made during crown moulding installation
Other common issue for homeowners is leaving often a new built house unheated on a cold weather for some period of time.  This can damage your hardwood or laminate floors, Kitchen Cabinets, wall paint, plumbing systems, trim and other components of your home. So make sure you don’t leave your house with inside temperature less than +15 C for a long period of time.

Combining all these rules will assure that your crown molding and other home accessories will please any selective picky eye for a life time period.
Our manufacturing facility located in North York, Ontario and we take installations jobs all over Toronto and GTA from Hamilton to Oshawa. Delivery is available in Toronto and Greater Toronto Area.