I Scribed The Board To The Floor

Finally step back and admire your diy skills.

I scribed the board to the floor.

I ve actually seen baseboard scribed to a stone floor. A coarse belt works best. In my opinion this is not a suitable application of a scribed cut. Walls are rarely straight or true.

Be careful to hold the compass perpendicular to the surface being scribed. The example above is fairly straight forward because there is a gap of 50mm. Trim the beveled edge down to the line with a block plane. Fix the scribed skirting board to the wall.

The actual board width is 134 8 mm note that this is undersized. If you have a lot of stock to remove cut with a jigsaw just to the waste side of the line removing the bulk of the material before sanding. Set the scribed baseboard in place. Nail baseboard to wall photo by craig raine.

Saw or plane away the wood to the outside of the line. Beveling the board s bottom edge makes it much easier to scribe fit. Nothing looks worse than a wavey white board against a stone hearth or floor. How to scribe flooring to the wall.

It was my bro s house so i didn t say anything. Securely clamp the scribed board to your worktable then sand to the scribed line. By temporarily fixing or propping the material to be scribed into a level position and setting the compass at 50mm it is easy to mark a line 50mm away from the uneven surface all the way along the edge to be cut in. Set the compass for the widest gap and scribe the line.

After slipping the final scribed board into place lever or wedge it tight against its neighbor and secure it with face nails. Tilt the sander slightly backward to undercut the line for a snug fit against the wall. Roe osborn senior editor at jlc responds. From experience i know this board could easily expand to 135 4 mm and that my instructions say to leave a 12 mm gap on both sides of the room remember that floating floors expand as if they were one giant piece of flooring since they aren t attached to the subfloor.

Even the slightest deviations along their length can become noticeable if a new floor does not match the walls imperfections. My eye was immediately drawn to this uneven white edge. So there you have it a perfectly scribed skirting board. If you re happy with the results from step 3 you can simply install the skirting board as normal.

When the scribed baseboard is put back on the wall its top edge should line up with the chalk line snapped in step 2.