Hello all knowledgeable people. I'm sitting here pondering over my thoughts once again.
I have an arch into the living room. The living room is now going to be renovated, and I'm going to fix new finely custom-planed moldings around doors and windows (the original has been renovated away over the years).
However, the arch has no molding. Just bare so to speak.
Either I cut it square, which makes it easy to dress with nice molding But it involves more work with the plastered wall, probably need to consult a structural engineer for strength as well.
Straight is nicer than an arch, not sure myself.
Or I could try bending the molding around the curve, probably in two parts with a block at the top.
But how do you do it? Steam/bend? Make many small cuts and then bend nicely (I think I'll test that on a piece with a miter saw)? Router a curve into a template?
The molding isn't so delicate. Grateful for any tips
If you're going to use wood trim, I would probably try the option of cutting several small pieces and putting them together to form a "curve," and filling in the gaps with something suitable.
You won't be able to bend the molding around. A laborious way to achieve this is to rout it out of a large MDF board with a hand router.
Consider removing the arch. In wooden houses, arches are not at all technically motivated but just a strange invention. If it's a masonry wall (also in the arch corners so to speak) it can have a load-bearing function. And then the question is whether it should have a casing for aesthetic reasons. There's no door where the casing is supposed to cover something, the gap between the frame and the wall.
Such an arch is hardly "original".
They probably came about after we started traveling to Mallåkra and Southern Spain on vacation and developed a taste for Moorish architecture.
So if you want to go back to the "original," then you should probably have a rectangular opening.
It's easily arranged with some chipboard or plasterboard and some sand filler.
You shouldn't cut it up, but rather fill in the upper rounded part.
Doesn't affect the strength at all.
KOW it seems it will be very low if you do as you say. Look at the fireplace for height comparison. It doesn't seem to be more than 1.6 m if you do that.
If the arch is retrofitted in an already existing doorway, it's not even certain that you have to hack into the brick. Regardless, my advice is to remove it, not particularly nice with an arch in my eyes.
KOW it does look like it will be very low if you do as you say. Look at the fireplace for height comparison. It doesn't seem to be more than 1.6 m if you do that.
I'm not sure I agree.
But it's hard to tell from a picture.
If you truly want to keep the vault and want to clad it with molding, I believe the simplest (read, least complicated) way is to buy nice plywood of sufficient thickness (at least 35 mm), you will probably need to glue together 2 pieces of 18mm. Then you can jigsaw/router out the rounded shape from a whole sheet. After that, there will be some routing required to get the right profile, but it is doable!
Sand and paint it, and it will look nice, but it will be a lot more work compared to a rectangular opening. I would either convert it to a rectangular opening or skip the molding.
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But it involves more work with the plastered wall, probably need to consult a structural engineer for strength as well.
