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Installing Skirting

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I just want to take you through the process of installing skirting in a room.

So here we have a fairly simple room and where we start we always start on the wall opposite where you enter the room or the doorway.

We are just going to cut a piece of skirting in between the two wall, square cut on both ends,

like that, so square cut on this end and square cut on the other end as tight as you can get it without damaging the adjacent walls.









That’s the start point and once we and then we can move on to the two side walls and we are going to cut a scribe on this end.









So although it looks like a mitre when it’s together a scribe is just basically the profile of the skirting cut into the end of the adjoining skirting board on this side. So we are not going to mitre our internal corners it’s just going to be a scribe. Now the reason we do that is that it limits the amount of gap when our skirtings shrink. Scribe vrs Mitre

So that gets scribed over there, so you can have a go and cut that as many times as you like and then once you’ve got your scribe nice and tight on the other end it’s just cut to length with a square cut tight into the corner.

Then again we repeat the process on this one so we are going to scribe over this board and then square cut against the architrave.

Flipping around to the other side, again, scribed cut on the corner butting into the skirting that is already in place and square cut into the opposite corner. So that board goes in there.

So every time we are doing a board we are only scribing one end and square cutting the other so same again here and there is our room complete.

So the whole reason for this is that by scribing the boards this way we minimise the amount of shrinkage you actually see. If you were to place the skirting in the opposite order when you stand at the door you would be looking directly into the gap.

So there you go that is the procedure for installing skirting in a room.