skirting boards

[mammutly]

Fit one length of board along the wall and right up to the corners. No cuts. nothing. Just straight.

Cut a bit off one spare piece of board.

Trace the outline shape onto your other length and cut it out so it slots into the length you've already fixed to the wall - leave a little thin overlap at the top ( it will look neater) Cut the other end to fit right up to the next wall and repeat.

Basically you are cutting out the shape of the board edge on one piece to make every corner.

Don't mess around with mitres. You will never get it right.

even if it does looks shit doing it this way you can easily hide all the fucked up bits with items of furniture. no one will ever know.

Use a nice scroller jigsaw and it's as neat as you like. Not a text book method, but it works fine.

I've waxed all the skirting boards in our house and painted big arrows on the walls pointing to the neatly finished corners. The effect is enhanced by directional spotlights and a loop recording of 'nobody does it better'.

 

[Barcon]

best to scribe in the internal corners.
cut the end of the skirting 45 degrees along one edge, scribe this cut end with a coping saw along the straight edge & round the moulding. this will now fit into the skirting at 90 degrees no messing with shonky corners.

This is the way it's done.

 

[bluealf]

I scribed all my internal corners and using a bevel got the angle for the others but still needed a bit of adjusting with a block plane.

Go for it mate it isn't that hard.

The only thing i will say is be careful with no nails if you have curved/bowed walls it wont stick and hold unless you put a temporary fix in to hold it until dry.

 

[mammutly]

I scribed all my internal corners and using a bevel got the angle for the others but still needed a bit of adjusting with a block plane.

Go for it mate it isn't that hard.

The only thing i will say is be careful with no nails if you have curved/bowed walls it wont stick and hold unless you put a temporary fix in to hold it until dry.

I hate that stuff.

Drill, plug and screw is my preferred choice.

 

[bluealf]

It is mine also.

Always laughed at the no nails adverts where they just pop the skirting or dado onto the wall and hey presto job done lol

 

[cockneycarparkm32]

I scribed all my internal corners and using a bevel got the angle for the others but still needed a bit of adjusting with a block plane.

Go for it mate it isn't that hard.

The only thing i will say is be careful with no nails if you have curved/bowed walls it wont stick and hold unless you put a temporary fix in to hold it until dry.

I hate that stuff.

Drill, plug and screw is my preferred choice.

Agree, that and MDF and Laminated skirting !!! why would anyone that works in an office space want to live in an.........office space, just weird.

 

[sky tot]

There`s nothing wrong with mdf skirtings/arcs as long as its being painted.
no knots
minimal scrinkage
available in long lengths
no warping or cupping

most soft wood timber skirtings nowerdays is crap, opposite to the above..

 

[BlueinCumbria]

just a thought/question.....?

We have just moved into a house and all skirting and door frames are dark wood so i have been sanding them down, undercoating them and then painting them - taking ages!

Anyone ever just ripped off the skirting in one room and taken it to local timber shop and asked them to cut exact replicas and then hey presto - job done!

 

[bluealf]

All the filler will have fallen out by the time you get it to the shop, so then when you refir the new stuff it will be gappy lol

Nice try though.

 

[sky tot]

just a thought/question.....?

We have just moved into a house and all skirting and door frames are dark wood so i have been sanding them down, undercoating them and then painting them - taking ages!

Anyone ever just ripped off the skirting in one room and taken it to local timber shop and asked them to cut exact replicas and then hey presto - job done!

this can be done,my mate had a victorian semi house with with 12" skirting ,there was about 6` missing.there was no chance of matching this up from any timber yards so had to have some machine.The only problem with this was that it was quite expensive because they have to make cutters to the exact profile of the existing moulding.
But, once they have the cutters made,it is more cost effective the more skirting/architraves you need.
hope that makes sense.