Skirting

Once we have built our walls and lined them with 130x12mm pine lining boards it was time to install our Arc's, Skirt's and Scotia.

I started of with the installation of the skirting. It was standard colonial timber skirting 70mm x 20mm.

We chose to place the piece down that would be first seen as you would walk into the room.

The first step was to measure the distance between the two end walls to determine the length of the skirting, once measured it can be cut. Before you apply the skirting you must walk around and mark all of the studs so you have a good solid fixing point besides the bottom plate.

When fixing to timber frame all you need is to nail it, when steel frames you can also noggin in between the studs or you can screw it off. If you are fixing to masonary it would e acceptable to se spaggeti and screws.We nailed our skirting on

Once the first piece was down, we could do our two scribes. To do the scribe you need to cut a mitre on you piece of skirt so it can be cut out with a coping saw.

Once it had been cut out it should butt into the other piece at 90degree's forming a solid and good clean join.