Problems with fitting architrave

[enterek22]

Hi. We are trying to fit an architrave. Both of the walls are with a bit on an angle and the wall on the right is so close that even the smallest architrave is too big. Plese help

 

[geraldthehamster]

It looks from the pictures as if you only have the thickness of the door casing before you hit the wall. I would run a piece of architrave across the top (no mitre, and simply paint the door casing at the sides.

Cheers
Richard

 

[foxhole]

As suggested or put in a quadrant to fit.

 

[Deleted member 174758]

The normal approach is to cut, mitre then rip down the remaining architrave leg using a hand saw, circular saw or jigsaw. I tend to put these trapped legs in first because it allows me to scribe to the wall and do any trimming with a block plane without the need to deal with a trapped mitre which is always awkward

 

[geraldthehamster]

The normal approach is to cut, mitre then rip down the remaining architrave leg using a hand saw, circular saw or jigsaw. I tend to put these trapped legs in first because it allows me to scribe to the wall and do any trimming with a block plane without the need to deal with a trapped mitre which is always awkward

Would you bother with trapped legs when only the depth of the door casing is showing?

Cheers
Richard

 

[Gerrydelasel]

Would you bother with trapped legs when only the depth of the door casing is showing?

If it was ornate architrave maybe, but not worth it for that simple stuff.

 

[Deleted member 174758]

Would you bother with trapped legs when only the depth of the door casing is showing?

Probably, yes.The only time I wouldn't would be on plain square edged or finger round architrave and there I would still use a scribed strip unless the strip was less than about 10mm.

 

[bigshineybike]

Just asking before I try this myself. Would it work if we 'fold' the architrave by cutting it lengthwise on a table saw. I want to see all the architrave matching around the house
But don't have the width on a few openings

 

[foxhole]

Better start a new thread rather than resurrecting an old one.