Music room renovation

WiresDreamDisasters

duotone said:

WiresDreamDisasters said:

Well.. skirting is a bastard.

Did you buy a mitre saw? 

https://www.screwfix.com/p/hand-mitre-saw/126fg

I snagged a cheap-ish chop saw last night on Amazon (yeah, yeah, I know....) and it should come on Friday. I'll blitz through it all this weekend!

poopot

WiresDreamDisasters said:

Well.. skirting is a bastard.

Don’t mitre the internal corners... they won’t fit and you’ll be there ages trying to make them look good...

ive only got one scrap piece of skirt left so you’ll have to pretend that the bit of paper is another piece of skirt!...

cut one piece to length and leave the end square... place an off cut against the second board like below:

Draw the profile of the end of the offcut onto the second skirt:

So you end up with this:

Cut out that shape from the end of the second skirt with a jigsaw...





It will then fit snug as a bug and won’t matter if your wall are pissed (which they will be)

Use “sticks like shit” and nails to pin the skirts to the wall... fill any gaps with caulk...

you will have to mitre the corners around the chimney stack but that will be a doddle compared to trying to mitre internal corners...

John_A

poopot said:

WiresDreamDisasters said:

Well.. skirting is a bastard.

Don’t mitre the internal corners... they won’t fit and you’ll be there ages trying to make them look good...

ive only got one scrap piece of skirt left so you’ll have to pretend that the bit of paper is another piece of skirt!...

cut one piece to length and leave the end square... place an off cut against the second board like below:.........

All good tips, my issue was I measured the length 3 times and always managed to cut them 1/2 inch short

poopot

John_A said:

poopot said:

WiresDreamDisasters said:

Well.. skirting is a bastard.

Don’t mitre the internal corners... they won’t fit and you’ll be there ages trying to make them look good...

ive only got one scrap piece of skirt left so you’ll have to pretend that the bit of paper is another piece of skirt!...

cut one piece to length and leave the end square... place an off cut against the second board like below:.........

All good tips, my issue was I measured the length 3 times and always managed to cut them 1/2 inch short

As the old saying goes:

”measure once, cut five or six times, go back to Howdens and buy another 4.2 length!”

digitalkettle

John_A said:

All good tips, my issue was I measured the length 3 times and always managed to cut them 1/2 inch short

Well, that's one time too many isn't it?

John_A

digitalkettle said:

John_A said:

All good tips, my issue was I measured the length 3 times and always managed to cut them 1/2 inch short

Well, that's one time too many isn't it?

After 2, I was an inch out

duotone

@poopot ;
If you buy a Coping Saw (around £10) https://www.screwfix.com/c/tools/coping-saws/cat9790017
This is the proper method: 
https://youtu.be/tQ21WE4KGfw

poopot

duotone said:

@poopot ;
If you buy a Coping Saw (around £10) https://www.screwfix.com/c/tools/coping-saws/cat9790017
This is the proper method: 
https://youtu.be/tQ21WE4KGfw

I haz coping saw... when I renovated my house last Christmas I had to do nine rooms... skirts and arcatrave... much quicker with a jigsaw!...

WiresDreamDisasters

Cheers all. I've got a coping saw and have been scribing joins already. I've got a chop saw that can do mitre angles on the way too. Gonna ram it in my pimhole this weekend!

spark240

WiresDreamDisasters said:

Well.. skirting is a bastard.


cant be as bad as plaster cornice....

WiresDreamDisasters

Bout dem kerf cuts then?

Legionreturns

My number one tip for skirting boards: 

Call uncle Clifford, who's been a chippy for over 50 years. Have him come round and do it, and buy the wood on his trade account. 

He did all of our new house and studio over 5 days, and all it cost me was £120 on timber. He won't take money for the labour. PS...not a power tool in sight. Every cut was done with a hand saw of some kind, and his tools are all older than me! 

WiresDreamDisasters

The chop saw made mitering the external corners a doddle. I measured the angle of the corner with a sliding bevel tool, bisected the angle on the back of a piece of skirting, and then transferred the bisected angle to the chop saw. They're pretty flush after this, but my walls are not straight, so when I screw the boards to the wall I think I will do it in sections. Corners first, and then work my way inwards. That way my external joins will remain (hopefully!) flush with each other.

The profile of boards I went for was a beveled edge sort of thing, which made coping the internal corners a bit of a ballache. I think torus would've been easier quite honestly! But I got there. Few bits that aren't as tidy as I'd like, so going to fill them with sawdust+PVA glue. Fortunately I had one of those collector bags on the back of the chop saw, so got plenty of MDF residue I can mix up with PVA!

Tomorrow is about removing the radiator, putting insulation tape across the bottom of each panel, and then fixing to the wall. 

I think the external mitres I am going to glue together first with some mitre mate or something.


Oh and of course I need to fill and sand the kerf'd bay window round section.

WiresDreamDisasters

Now today is all about actually fitting them to the walls! This will be interesting. 

poopot

WiresDreamDisasters said:

Now today is all about actually fitting them to the walls! This will be interesting. 

“Sticks like shit” and a nail gun... 

Legionreturns

poopot said:

WiresDreamDisasters said:

Now today is all about actually fitting them to the walls! This will be interesting. 

“Sticks like shit” and a nail gun... 

Watch out for wires...

PolarityMan

Legionreturns said:

poopot said:

WiresDreamDisasters said:

Now today is all about actually fitting them to the walls! This will be interesting. 

“Sticks like shit” and a nail gun... 

Watch out for wires...

cos that would be a disaster

WiresDreamDisasters

That was a dreamy joke!

WiresDreamDisasters

Well, got all of the skirting on. Time to sand and paint. Did the bit near the radiator first so I could get the rad back on the wall! Should be 'studio-y' by this weekend!

John_A

WiresDreamDisasters said:

Well, got all of the skirting on. Time to sand and paint. Did the bit near the radiator first so I could get the rad back on the wall! Should be 'studio-y' by this weekend!

Nice one, I thought I was doing well tidying up my rack wiring!