How to fit skirting boards in 2023
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2022
- I am fitting skirting boards at the Big Build with my apprentice Ed, we are choosing really good quality MDF skirting boards to work with and it make the job of fitting skirting boards a dream!
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Big ed is shaping up to be great chippy. Great credit to you robin spending time teaching him your skilled ways.
Good man, 2022 and you dont have a mitre saw, you absolute simpleton
Fair play to Robin and the crew ,not only running and working on these sites ,but taking the time to teach people the trade with great enthusiasm and the highest standard of work . It must add hours onto your week ,thanks Darren
I Love It When I See A Tradesman Teach An Apprentice Such High Qaulity Work And Paitence of a Saint
Hi Pedro, thanks for your comment, these guys are the future and its a pleasure to be able to work with them!!
Ed is a lucky young man having a teacher as good as Robin. He will be a very good carpenter and he will be able to pass his knowledge on to the next generation of craftsman
ED is doing very good for a beginner. He has a good teacher. 👍. I fit skirting very similar to this way. Grest video 👌🇮🇪.
Ed’s got an awesome teacher. He’ll be a fabulous carpenter journeyman.
“Tricks of the trade” and “pride in workmanship”…a great combination!✅
DIYer here and proud to have taught myself skirts after our new floor went down, earning myself a permanent chop saw in the process. Took a while to get everything perfect - a millimetre gap looks huge so precise measuring and getting used to kerf was key - but it was worth it and incredibly satisfying. Wish I’d had this video at the time though - all these little tips for things like managing kicked-out architraves or non-standard corners that help. Never seen anyone recommend a scribe template for internals though - I cut all mine independently and this would have saved me a lot of time. 😂👍🙏
A good tip which your painter will love you for as well is to run masking tape under the skirting before fitting it. Then when it comes to painting the skirting all your painter has to do afterwards is run a knife carefully down the corner, take the tape off and voila, perfectly painted skirting with no faff. Thanks for the vids robin, think the lad will be overtaking you soon with any luck 🤙
As a decorator, I've lost count of the times I've asked for this to be done, saves a huge amount of time and agro.
Excellent chaps!
Proper craftsmen at work, I love the fixing methods for a permanent job.
Well done Ed, you’re a great tradesman and to you Robin for having the belief in the young lad.
Great video as always 👍👍
Very interesting to see the different techniques you use, and most helpful for the DIY'er. Much appreciated.
I’ve been an apprentice carpenter for just over 2 years now and stumbled across your CZcams channel through the podcast as I am keen to learn more about my trade. Your channel is so informative and I’ve learned so many tips that have made my life on site much easier and allowed me to take an extra level of pride into my work. Keep up the great content 👍🏻
Hi Mate, welcome to our amazing trade, glad you get something from the videos, you will soon be qualified and ready to pass on your knowledge too, have a good week!
Really nice seeing edd come along with some great work, really bright future for you mate 👍🏻. As always he's got the best in the business teaching him well done robin 👍🏻
I was blown away watching how you do the cuts for a perfect fit. It caused me to look at the skirting on my house and saw the difference between your work and how they must have done it when they built my house. I love watching and learning although I am not a builder just love doing things with wood.
Nice idea on the biscuits, never seen that before a bit ott but looks like you get the big bucks
Brilliant as always well done to Edd 👍👍👍
Great inspiration will be redoing skirtings on next painting redecorating planned maintenance. Thanks for the tips and tricks. KC
Owner building in Sydney. These fantastic tutorials are so helpful. Things like the biscuits to keep joints flat and using super glue to easily make a difficult joint are incredibly helpful. 🤗 Well done Robin and great to see that Ed has a craftsman as a tutor. 👍
Excellent job Robin, you definitely taught Edd the tricks of the trade.
Many thanks for taking the time to make videos like this Robin. After watching several times just fitted skirting to new loft room. Not quite Robin perfect but better than many tradesmen these day, thanks to your tutorials. Thanks for giving confidence and making a difference :-)
Another great piece of work and top marks for sharing your skills with Ed. It must be a great pleasure to see a young'un 'getting it' and producing such quality work.
I've used AC50, acrylic adhesive, for mounting MDF skirting and I'd say it's a great product. On the only occasion I've had to remove a piece I used a sharpened hacksaw blade and just cut the adhesive as I gently pulled on the skirting.
A true master carpenter and builder. Thank you Robin.
I love how you compliment ed, warms my heart
I'm a spread by trade, lovely to watch other trades do their magic, excellent work lads, just get some knee pads! haha
Really enjoy you channel and your a great teacher passing on your knowledge
That is one lucky apprentice. Respect to Robin taking the time to teach. Bossing it 👍
You have a great teaching style. I really enjoyed watching this video and I thought it was a refreshing take on tutorial videos that you actually showed someone on site how to do it. I felt I stood alongside him as your apprentice. It's rarely been done and a great idea. Also, really enjoyed the praise you handed out and your general positive and detail oriented style. Hope you will make many more such videos. Thanks.
Quality as always Robin and Ed. Reminds me of my apprenticeship. My boss was a stickler for great detail too. Keep the content coming great too watch. Cheers
just stunning
Wow, I’m seriously impressed , and realise I need to slow down and aim for this level of work. Thanks for the reminder.
Great stuff
Hi Robin and crew. I start my carpentry apprenticeship beginning of September and all your videos have been a great help in this and with my own projects.
Thank you 🙏
Best of luck!
Great video Robin !!! thanks
Perfect as usual
Beautiful work. Well done guys. I learend lots from this video.
That was brilliant. I learned so much. Thank you.
Top class tradesmen. Great work. Not many like you about.
Mate I have work with numerous trades but got to say you are next level tradesmen and love watching your vids you have given me so many tips love it keep the vids coming respect 💪
Edd must be a pleasure to teach . And has the best teacher of all time
Ed is a great student!! He listens, watches and is super brave, prepared to give anything a good shot!!
Superb video and thorough demonstration! It's been difficult here where I am in the States to find younger people to get into these trades. Wonderful how you give back to those that want to learn there where you live and all of us fans here on your wonderful channel. Hope this week is a glorious one for all of you and thanks again Robin!
Thanks Thor, your encouraging words are always well received, the problem of getting younger people into the trades is a problem across the developed world, let's hope that it becomes fashionable to be a craftsperson in the future! The schools want all kids to be purely academic these days!
Super work.
Loved it
No wonder that guy got his first go a skirting done bang on what an amazing way of teaching you have really surprised you don’t have more followers great work guys keep it liked and subscribed
Pure gold for an apprentice who Mainly does first fix, keep them coming please and liking the new channel! 🙌
Cheers mate!!
Great vid! I've been watching for a while and this is my fave 😀
Great vid as always
Great video!
I can't believe I just watched the whole thing for absolutely no reason other than it was so good to watch it being done so well. Everyone doing skirting should watch this video!
Thank you Jo!! It really helps my channel when people are kind enough to watch the entire video!! Have a great weekend
A pleasure watching a skilled person work 👍👍
Very fascinating! True professionals👍
Beautiful
Pleasure to watch things being done properly. Good on you
Another masterclass 👌
Awesome stuff, a really lucky, privileged lad to have such craftsman, perfectionist as a tutor 👌
Love this guide. Biscuit joints to square things flush is a great idea especially if you working on your own and faces will always have the same datum. One template to do all of the scribes. Cutting down repeated measurements. Maximum quality, maximum profit.
I go anti clockwise round the room, you only have to scribe the right end of the board. Starrets angle finders good for saving time on awkward angles, mitre glue on externals. Robin gives clear informative instructions and goes the extra mile, i like the biscuit idea, but time consuming. Always good videos on this channel. I've started saying "and all the rest of it" lately haha
Likewise ... a right hand scribe is much easier than a left
@@Theforestcarpenter bloody right handers… 😂
Same here
I'm right handed so I tend to work clockwise around the room, so I cut left end scribes as you look at it, otherwise you'll be cutting scribes cack handed
My cuts always dictated by the shape of the room. I like to get my scribes so they butt up against a piece of wood where your eyes are most likely to be looking along. If that makes sense.
Fascinating
Only carpenter in the whole world to biscuit joint skirting to architrave!
Not a gap in sight. Great job lads
The first part for only needing to cut one mitre piece is incredible 👌😁 such time saver
Absolute class
Your lads doing well, excellent skirting.
Great vid!! Thanks
I also use the same place to get my skirtings and arch’s. I like to personally buy a thicker architrave. Firstly because I like the look but secondly to to offset the plastering/lining issues. Great job as always guys. Very impressed with the big chap. Pretty sure my skirting didn’t look like that at first.
As a new diy-er that tutorial was as easy to understand as is possible, your apprentices are very fortunate to have such attention to detail training, your a credit to your trade Robin👍
Thank you Nigel, so glad that this is of use to you
Great video
Wish this had been out a couple of years ago. Had to do my own when joiner took COVID rules to heart and wouldn't come in. First issue was architraves, my batch purchase of standard MDF ones were too narrow for the fire door frames. So now got two sizes ...
Struggled with profiling using coping saw; your technique is better, quicker and easier.
I have since removed some sections, for better furniture fit. Used only foam to fix, so can be removed with a bread knife. Just one (old) wall with bowing needed pins too.
Amateur but I'm the client, so can accept my own imperfections.
I know it's not a DIY guide, but still learnt a lot. Thanks.
Always knock the snots off! Great stuff.
Nice !
That was really helfpul thanks. Very skilled indeed
Much appreciated good man 👌
Love mouldings going on. Make a site look finished.
I cut my scribes when I'm rough cuttings to make life easier.
Excellent work Sir🥃🥃
That’s old school that!! Nice work mate. I measure the whole house and cut all my scribes and mitres at the saw and then take it up and fit it, I’ll never go back!!!
Ah yes sir, the belcast that the spreads tend to leave at skirting level. Very informative video as ever.👍👍👍👍👍
Your the best of the best in carpentry very skilled master .
Just got a load of primed skirting and architrave delivered from skirting world; excellent finish and very good prices. A great recommendation from Robin!
Wonderful!
Used to scribe like that. Now use angle grinder like a FinishCarpentry video - don't have my own dead square walls and floors so have to work with the historical unevenness
I glue only on Good walls and screws on wavy walls. I thought the laser measure was going to make a debut. You can remove and only small damage to plaster. For me a angle finder is a must have tool now. Great educational vid.👍
Tradition = Scribe internal corners, mitre external corners.
Then you go to some of the new build houses and see square edge skirtings with butt joints, which is absolutely outrageous and indefensible even on grounds of keeping costs to a minimum. Nice to see Ed learning to put small corners in as one and scribing up to it to help keep it tight into the corner, Great work Ed, must have a good teacher !!
Holy moly. I’ve installed thousands of feet of trim and learned by way of mistake and inefficient bumbling, refusing inaccuracy or clumsy execution, slowly gathering strategies to get it done faster. Glad to see I arrived at some similar techniques but maaaan would this video have been useful to see 6 years ago!! And there were still many nuggets in there!!
My faves:
- trim router as biscuit machine
- ca glue for baseboards as well (not just door frame miters)
- this is massive: only mitre and cope once! Then trace the rest (I mitred and coped em all… 🙈
- using a fixed-known-size-easy-to-calculate-measurement-and-fit-test-block (needs better name😂) to suss out the joins instead of starting each one as a new solve (though I was working in very old very wobbly places where plumb is a fruit and square is a person you don’t want to hang around too long 😅…)
All told I think these tips would cut my working time in half, maybe more.
Damn fine video!
Very nice job
Thank you
A note for big Ed, I've run MDF skirting tight to aluminium doors before and found that in the winter you get a bit of condensation forming on the aluminium frame and it wicks up the skirting and can swell & stain it. I tend to leave a 3mm or so gap now and keep my 🤞
Another solution would be to seal the end of the MDF to stop the wicking or add an impervious packer. To deliver the high quality that Robin aims for, you really need to get rid of the gap.
@@tlangdon12 shadow gap looks fine and intentional. Against black doors you'd barely notice it.
I usually do all my external mitres first, as they are the most difficult to get right, especially if the plaster is lumpy & bumpy & not true. If you end-up being a tiny bit short, it doesn't matter, as the internal mitre scribes hide any gaps. 🙂👍
Forget spa days, watching you is all I need. Did my C&G Ordinary and advanced in 1979-1983, and everything was done by hand, until it was perfect them you could use chop Saws and mitre Saws. Times have changed, but your skill and precision is impeccable. One of my old course joinery tutors, was very much like you, meticulous in every detail, which was taught to all. I cannot stop recommending your channel, purely for the education aspect alone. Thanks
If you need to scribe the skirting, always work to the door. That way the shadow, (gap) will not face you as you enter the room.
Lining on paper on the floor. Nice trick. Obvious once you see it done! If the opportunity presents itself, I’d like to see how you treat a three-piece bullnose corner. Lots of those in mid-century modern around here. (Your hand-saw technique is a joy to watch.)
Your coping saw skills are superb, make it look very easy. Those mdf boards can scuff or snap fairly easily tbh but I can see you're well skilled. Nice work, thanks for sharing those great tips 👍🏿
Thanks for watching and commenting Patrick!! Have a good week mate
Nice work Robin (as always) sadly most of us do not have the luxury of having a craftsman like yourself in front of them!
It’s great to see you use hand tools 👍
High levels of workmanship.
This is 💯!!
Sadly this is only how a very small percentage of carpenters conduct their work. The attention to detail here is fantastic.
Decorating over your work would be a pleasure guys. Keep up the amazing work and superb videos. 🙌🏻
Most people can't afford or don't want to pay for the extra time and money it takes to biscuit skirting and architrave together, for example
@@stephenoconnor1459 amen brother if the materials are the same thickness you can shoot the top of the skirt into the framing ive never had a call back
I think the job Robin is on, the people are paying top dollar. In the real world not many carpenters can cost in biscuit joining for example, very time consuming therefore more expensive. I can lose a £1000 job to someone charging £50 less where i live. I leave nice work but i have to make it pay for the time spent.
@@stephenoconnor1459
Absolutely spot on mate
He's obviously a talented chippy but I've never had a budget that would allow for biscuits in architraves
Don't really see the point actually
Most of the walls I work on tend to be utterly devoid of anything like this so your (rather fantastic) tutorial goes out the window; getting the walls straight, level, plumb, flat would be another job in itself. After years of ‘winging it’ I’ve got my own methods to get them looking pretty decent and pretty fast. I don’t know if you could teach it pretty easy to be honest. You learn cause you have to.
I’d love to hear your tips and tricks or a potential video mate. Like you, I’m always left trying to hide awkward plaster work
@@teewithey5879 Me too!
And me please👍🏻
This is the type of firm I’d like to work for, beautiful workmanship, clean and tidy, pride in the job at hand and working at the correct pace to achieve all of the above! They’re using great tools too! Working in Derbyshire? Hit me up
Great work right there. Shame everyone doesn’t have the same style 👍
Good video
Nice to see a tradesman taking pride in his work and striving for perfection rather than the ‘that will do’ approach
Thank you Dave, I feel passionately about keeping the standard in the building trade at the highest possible level and preserving skills for future generations, thanks for watching!!
Two things I do when building is mark the studs on the floor so I can nail up high on the skirting board , and next to walls and doors I nail a block on the bottom plate which helps in pulling it up tight as I can nail the top
Really enjoyable to watch people who evidently care about quality work. Thank you gents!
Quick question: for making small wooden boxes, picture frames, and doing the 11" and 9" skirtings here, I've used masking tape to hold the tips of the mitre together then 'folding-closed', to ensure the mitre pulls tight and straight. It's a 1910s house, where I usually have to scribe the bottom of the skirting to the floor! I realise at the 'big build' there's no wall out of plumb, nor floor that isn't billiard-table flat ;-) , but do you ever feel the need when doing skirtings?
For external angles like those in the video I set my bevel gauge on the angle, transfer this angle to some paper (or thin card) and cut it out, fold it in half and set my saw to cut that half-angle. So if the external angle was say 146 degrees then when folded the paper would give 73 degrees. It's really quick and works every time.