Measuring Crown Molding, Marking Crown Molding Correctly

A couple of other points to discuss about measuring crown molding:

1. If you find you are going to need a scarf joint due to a long run, measure it to a stud so you know when you nail it up, it is solidly connected to a stud.
   
2. If you know that you are going to have a full piece make it inside corner to inside corner measure to one point on the wall, mark it with a fine pencil(we recommend http://www.contractortrusted.com/ the accutrax pencil blades!), then measure from the opposite corner to that mark.  This will give you a precision measurement and remove the concern of curly up your tape measure into the corner.