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Two Piece Ceiling Medallion Installation - Kickoff to Finish

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After installing a ceiling medallion in my son'south bedroom, my married woman and I liked it so much that I decided to install ane in our master bedroom to compliment our plain crown molding. We had a ceiling fan already installed in our bedroom, so normally I would have remo

ved the fan, installed the medallion, so replaced the fan in the same way I did my son's Ceiling Medallion Installation. I wondered though how I might do information technology if I had a large chandelier or ceiling fan which couldn't be removed so I decided to give it a attempt by splitting my EM0604 Ceiling Medallion and installing information technology every bit two pieces. To split up the medallion I used a commercial ring saw which has a 1/sixteen inch blade thickness (a tabular array saw would have worked likewise, simply the blade is nigh twice as thick so y'all lose a bit more from the medallion).

I started by unscrewing the canopy of the ceiling fan to reveal the mounting bracket. I needed to create enough room nether the mounting bracket to slide the medallion underneath. I removed i of the 1.25" long bolts that was property the ceiling fan in place and replaced it with a 2 ½" bolt and screwed it in merely far enough to where it would back up the fan. I so removed the 2d one ¼" bolt and replaced it with some other two ½" commodities. This left a gap of 1 ¼" between the mounting bracket and the ceiling which was just enough space to slide in the two parts of the medallion.

I dry fitted the ii parts of the medallion to make certain they would come together properly. The distance between the bolts was a trivial larger than the hole size of the medallion so I cut a ¼" notch in the sides of the hole to make enough room for the bolts. The two parts where and so able to come together like I needed. After dry fitting the medallion, I practical polyurethane adhesive to the dorsum of both parts of the medallion and so put but a thin bead in-betwixt on the seam where the parts would come together (you only want a sparse bead on the seam or y'all won't be able to get it pressed together). Once the adhesive was in place I applied each office to the ceiling and then pressed them together and aligned them and so they came together evenly.

I allowed the adhesive to set for 4-5 hours before standing the project to make sure that I didn't ruin the alignment of the two parts when completing the residuum of the installation. Afterwards it was fully set, I tightened the bolts on the mounting subclass. There were some small gaps between the two pieces so I used a spackling compound on the seam (motion-picture show to left is after I filled the seam only earlier sanding). After letting that dry, I sanded it with fine dust sandpaper. Even earlier painting the medallion the seam had disappeared.

The but negative part well-nigh doing the installation in this manner is that I had to paint the medallion at the end. Information technology is much easier to paint a medallion prior to installation, but since I was installing information technology as a two part medallion I had to record the ceiling, paint the medallion, and so make clean off the tape.

To terminate off the medallion I used white painter'due south caulk (DAP) and put a little dewdrop around the medallion where it met with the ceiling. Then I used my finger to shine the line and wiped any excess off with a slightly damp rag. Project Complete!

Total time spent on project: 1 Hour

Total time betwixt start and terminate due to time between steps: About half-dozen Hours

If you have a ceiling fixture that would be hard to remove then this type of installation is definitely an option. If you have the pick though, I would suggest removing the fixture, installing the medallion, then replacing the fixture. Past doing it that way the bodily installation of the medallion volition simply take about 20-30 minutes. You can read more than about a typical Ceiling Medallion Installation