Scribing Skirting To Floor

Scribing helps you fit a cabinet side paneling or molding to irregular surfaces like brick.

Scribing skirting to floor.

How to scribe skirting board angles other than 45 90 122 5 135 etc when the corner is not 90 the method is the same but there s a little more worth knowing in order to scribe skirting boards in tight. This might be skirting boards baseboards to uneven floors or corners architraves that need installing to a small nib too narrow for a full board pipe boxing s to uneven walls ply wood a door to an ill fitting frame infill cover strips a shelf into a wall alcove that is out of square worktops to uneven walls drywall plasterboard sheets. How i do it is to hold the pencil at a distance away from the skirting board and run it along the floor. When fitting new skirting boards you might find that uneven floors leave unsightly gaps between the floor and the bottom of the skirting.

Then set the compass a little wider than the widest gap and scribe the line. Again as above cut one board tight into the corner using a bevel to determine the angle and fix it firmly in place. Scribing to the floor is not difficult it can be done with a jigsaw low angle block plane and a pencil. First support the paneling or molding so its edge is plumb.

If this is the case you ll be wanting to know how to scribe a skirting board to the floor.