How To Install Skirting Boards | Easy DIY Guide For Perfect Skirtings
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- How To Install Skirting Boards | Easy DIY Guide For Perfect Skirtings
00:00 Intro
01:32 How To Fit Skirtings Behind Radiator Pipes
04:59 How To Attach Skirtings To Your Wall
06:37 How To Scribe Skirtings To Fit Internal Corners
10:05 How To Join Skirting Boards On Long Walls
12:42 How To Mitre Skirtings To Fit External Corners
How To Install Skirting Boards | Easy DIY Guide For Perfect Skirtings
In this video we are installing skirting boards.
This is an easy step by step guide for all DIYers.
We will show you how to fit skirtings behind radiator pipes and how to join skirtings boards for a seamless finish.
We also demonstrate how to scribe skirtings to fit internal corners and how to mitre skirtings to fit external corners.
Top tips and tricks for a professional finish to your skirting boards.
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Great to find a UK based home DIY advice channel with every bit of info I need to tackle our home as first time owners planning to do everything ourselves outside of gas and electric. Subbed.👍
Awesome! Thank you! 😁😁
I'm going to need to watch this a few more times before I tackle an internal corner but I feel like I can do it myself now. Thank you !
Just one tip I would add. To make the skirting easier to paint, I use a spacer (credit card depth) when fixing the skirting to create a 1/2mm gap above the flooring. Leaves enough room to run some masking tape around the perimeter (and just in, under the skirting) and saves a lot of cutting in where the skirting might be touching the floor.
Quality nice one mate 😊👌🏼👌🏼
Very informative video. I remember the days when I scrabbled about on the floor cutting butt and scribes before chop saws and I used a nobex hand saw. As you get older you find cutting the skirting on a pair of stools with a couple of scaffold boards spread across them saves your knees and back.
Can’t say I ever worried about cutting the scribe to suit how it looked coming into the room as I always tried to cut the scribes on the right hand end as being right handed your coping saw is always in the same place when you need it.
When house bashing I would measure each room on a floor and cut the whole lot in one go and then fix it all off at once as there is speed in repetitive actions. Do all the cutting then do all the fixing, but each persons works to what suits them. The video is ideal though for beginner DIYers so well done for simplifying the operation.
stools definitely as you get older.
Bloody hell this vid means I can do it myself- I was really hoping to tell my wife it was beyond my dodgy DIY skills, so I need to get someone in- thanks guys for giving me work this weekend!
🤣🤣 we can give you a letter signed explaining there are some super hard parts we left out if you want signed of courses to make it legitimate 🤣💪🏼
Hi guys, on the external corner if it's 44 degrees, is the joining piece 46
Also what is your opinion on pvc skirting
@@jonrogers1780Hey Jon! No, it'd be 44 again on the other side.
This is because they measured the angle of their wall and it was 88 degrees (instead of the assumed 90 for most corners).
I appreciate it's not super obvious because he used the tool that gave them a miter read-out. If he read out the protractor reading - it would have been 88.
Hence - his lesson that not all corners are 90 degrees!
Super content. Thank you very much lads.
I hace started following you lads as I love the way you explain it all.
Great work
Glad to hear it thanks mate 👏🏼👏🏼
Really well described and informative on how to fit skirtings.
Top job as usual 👍
Appreciate The support John ⭐️ have a great day
I watched loads of videos on how to lay flooring, yours was the best. I watched it twice and away I went. Same with the skirting. You guys give the precise right amount of info. The full on cockney accents defo add to it too. Well played lads.
That’s quality nice one mate 😊💪🏼
Brilliant video guys, put across in really simple terms. Will definitely be referencing back to this when I do my house.
Top video and have subscribed
Awesome, thank you! 😊👏🏼
I wasn't convinced when you didn't do 45's for the corners. But I was proved wrong. GG WP haha. Thanks for the vid.
Brilliant as always love Saturday morning for these videos 😊
Morning Elaine thanks 😁😁😁
Absolutely brilliantly done fellas. Very nice.
Thank you! Cheers!👏🏼👏🏼
Excellent video lads🎉
Top content as always lads learn something new every time
Much appreciated 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Absolutely golden you lads fair play 👍
Thanks mate 👏🏼💪🏼
Love the tool run down! I mitre even get round to doing this, if the jigsaw puzzles me I’ll just have to cope with it. The hammer part was banging too! thats it, no more promise😂 Thanks guys, another great vid
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Should've mentioned the gun then you'd have truly nailed it. Great to ( mitre ) "bond" through jokes too.
Thanks guys - much appreciated and well explained 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
New subscriber. Very informative videos guys. Very well laid out process you show us. Top lads
Awesome, thank you!
Thanks for this. I'm renovating my house wood like to do a few things myself (regardless how slow I'd be 😂).
Top job lads
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Top guys, always learn from ur videos. Thanks, keep up the good work
Thanks, will do! 😁😁😁
Class video boys, top job! I need to do this in one of our rooms as the previous owners ripped off a whole length of skirting to fit a wardrobe, taking a chunk of plaster with it 🤦♂️😂
Thanks mate and oh dear 🤣🙈
@@homeimprovements honestly, the list of botch jobs is endless, upside down door handles and wallpaper reattached with masking tape is just the start 😂
Handy tip: When scribing internal corners , instead of using a coping saw for the straight line.. Use a multi tool for the perfect straight neat cut ! 😮
The boys got all the tips 🙏🏼
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you lads are awesome
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very professional teaching 😎👍
Thank you! 😃
What length nails do you use in the nailer and what have you the depth usually set at? I have the same nailer but my nails never seem to go in far enough and just crumple up or they don't hold the skirting. Don't want to resort to going back to masonry nails
Would be good to see the prep of removing the skirt on an older house, i have a house built in the 30s, removing picture frames and skirt is a nightmare due to the old sand mix used on the interior brick
Top Vid Lads........
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Loving the tutorials guys. Im about to do my skirting boards on a porch extension. Ive an issue with one wall. Its where the new porch wall meets the existing house wall. The length is about 500mm. Its two external mitre joints. Unfortunately the new stretch of wall is angled back creating a gap of a fingers width. Ive removed the plaster from below but the gap remains. What would you guys do to reduce it whilst keeping the boards true? Cheers.
You could plane some of the back on the skirting away 😊
Bloody brilliant video lads. I definitely need better tools though, no way I could decern between 45' and 44' with my chop saw 😂
🤣 we have one of those saws too don’t worry and thanks 😊💪🏼
what would recommend to use in USA instead of EVO-STIK Sticks Like Sh*t Adhesive? Thank you for grate video
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Just wondering why you cut/joined the long length of skirting against the wall when you didn't need to??
Ty
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One of the best tutorials I've seen.
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Hi great video very instructional what's the make and name of the red angle finder thanks
Thanks it’s from a company called trig jig
Would you like please to advise us about some good adhesive for fixing the skirting boards to the wall? Cheers
Ct1 grab and bond
Cheers
Hi guys, any chance you can show how to do a transition from 170mm skirtingboard on the landing to the one on the staircase when you have a torus or ogee ?
why did you do 22.5 on the scarf instead of 45s?
The old problem with plastered walls is they curl up the wall so usually need to chip off so the chopsaws got a chance to cut a 90° that fits
Can you use the 16 gauge nailer into brick/block walls that are rendered and skimmed?
This are brick 😁 not recommended obviously but between us it works 🤣👍🏼
Nice one! Cheers lads!
Hi, is there a specific reason why you joined the long piece of skirting just inside the door, was the full length of the skirting not long enough? Or is there another reason, love the video,thanks for the tips
Just down to lengths we had and thanks 😊
A DIY'er would get away with a manual mitre saw such as a Nobex saw. Would be good to show this option as a chop saw is a big commitment for some DIY'ers. Good video though!
Great video. Bit confused when you say 'it looks like a 45 degree angle' were you referring to the corner angle, which would be 90 degrees or there abouts? And if the corner is below 90 degrees, then the miter would need to be more than 45 degrees?
I’m referring to the cuts so standard would be 45 degree but in fact it was 44 or 88 degrees 😊
how did you cut your external mitres at 44 degrees? By setting the chop saw? Did you put the jig onto the blade to make sure it was at 44?
Just setting mitre saw to 44 😊
@@homeimprovements easy 😁 thanks for the reply!
So why did you measure 1.4 mtr to rad pipe then cut it shorter?. Confused.
I stopped scribing years ago i just do 45 cuts now unless walls crap
Where did you get that style of skirting from? The one in the thumbnail?
Skirting world 😊
When fitting skirting and it sticks out past the architrave I see a lot of people saying they bevel the skirting but when people ask what they mean they never reply so would you know what they mean.
Basically put an angle on the end to make it thinner 😊
What about the expansion gap?
If I removed a 3 inch skirt how do I fit a 5 inch skirt when the plaster ran up to the top of the 3 inch skirt?
Get a bag of one coat plaster and use it to fill in the gap
So the external corner at 44° - do I cut each board at 22°?
Depends what gauge your using this gives us the mitre so if it reads 44° mitre we do 2x44°
If one angle is 44, the other has to be 46 right? This wasn't in the video. Most mitre's go up to 45 only on the angle, so do you have to flip one of the skirting board when you cut it to get the smaller angle?
No not necessarily
Why not hide the joint behind the right hand rad pipe
how can i re gloss skirting boards with existing carpet??
Masking tape and tuck using a card
@@homeimprovements thank you
Base boards. Sounds like something I’d ride into a rave
Why do you do your mitre cut where it meets the rad pipe?? Is it to hide the joint behind the pipe??
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It doesnt look directly behind the pipe tho! it looks off centre to the left of the pipe unless my eyes are lying??
You guys are the dog's b....ks 👌 Thank a LOT!! 👍
You are so kind
Your teaching people so fair play but i always take rads off as on mdf boards the cuts always show after a while.
Also what's with spraying the glue on the external mitre, no no no
What if the wall is concrete or brick?
Why not put the skirt on in one piece?
You say 16 gauge nails but not what length to use?
Around 32mm on brick/block walls 😊
why is the angle 22.5? why is it not 45 degrees?
Not sure what your referring to mate
A bodge to match the 15mm radiator tail.....customers are a nightmare ...take the rad off
Are you two twins ?…..If not you’re doing a good job of impersonating each other 😊
Brothers 😊😊
Yeah… I’m gonna pay someone to do it.
I've done it in 3 rooms using a simple 5$ saw. The first room was done horribly. That happened because I wasn't following you guys.
I would add knee pads :)
Watched it like 5 times
The first scribing part you explained made no sense
If we do a straight line that’s plumb because of the off cut we used
Then once we 45 cut it we’ve lost the plumbness
On an corner if u mitred 44° do u do the other at 44 or do u have to do the second at 46° to make it up to 90°
Not if it’s not a 90° corner 😊
Where did that nail gun come from? Wasnt in the start when showing us the tools needed.
Wearing shorts to instal skirting is ridiculous. No professional carpenter would wear shorts unless he was also wearing knee pads
the cuts near the radiators are wrong, they should be 45 degree cuts so yo get a cleaner and seamless finish. That does not look great at all. I always do 45 degree cuts and always get a almost perfect finish. Less cuts the better!
Agreed, I know em as weather cuts. But yeah, a 45° splice
If you do 45% cuts how do you manage to do less cuts then ??? Still need two cuts.😂😂 45% isn’t wrong …..it’s just different
Agree rad joint looked awful 45 best stopped watching after that
Always been told 45° cuts for a better bond and cleaner look 🤔
Anything less makes it more identified and prone to movement 😉
Include a gap below of 1-2mm for allowing easier painting as well as tension when knocked
Really need a better camera man...
why not just cut 45 degree of internal corners lol...
Looks a piece of piss on modern, square, flat walls. Old wonky Victorian houses are fun and games!
When are sleeve tattoos gonna stop being a thing. I can't get over how easy it is to make ppl follow fads