Crown Molding Hanger by Smithline; Crown Molding Installation

So I was remodeling my house and doing everything solo unfortunately, these made crown molding 100 times faster, easier, and better end results. Super easy to use, small enough to keep around until next time you need them, and extremely helpful. I highly recommend.

So practical and easy to use! We (hubbie and I) have been installing 16ft crown moulding on 10ft ceilings by ourselves, and these made us feel like professionals with none of the Cirque du Soleil acrobatics.

Works great, does exactly what it was made for.

Anything larger and you’ll need a helper

These allowed me to hang molding on ladder by myself... so it does the job. However, it could be improved a lot with minor tweaks. You either have to measure and mark the distance from the ceiling around your perimeter or eyeball the distance from the ceiling which isn't easy due to it requiring a nail in a position unrelated to the molding height. Extending the back piece to adjust to rest on the ceiling properly distanced would help immensly for productivity and if they added ruler markings would avoid screw ups. A better fastening mechanism would be useful as the current one requires holding the back piece in place supporting one part of molding that tends to put pressure and torque on the support then loosening the hand nut and sliding the front piece up to where the molding should stay then tighting the nut. Pushing up the back part at all pushes it off of the nail its hanging from even when properly loosened as they don't slide smoothy even without a load but when supporting a decent section of molding bends and torques so it really doesn't want to slide smoothly. This can be mildly annoying or bring everything crashing down. It could use a notch or some marked area for supporting molding better as it simply supports molding at the meeting of the two parts but it doesn't support the molding rotationally well, allowing it to twist and turn a lot even when the locking nut is tightened. Then the plastic flexes enough to prevent easily setting the angle of the junction. If the notch could be thinner than the existing structure it would fix another problem. Their thickness forces a significant distance between them to avoid molding bowing out from crossing these hangers while having three would make installation much easier than one on each end. Also plastic is weak and flexible so large chunks of molding can strain it and create torque. Designing it to allow them closer together and including at least 3 would work much better.