How to Cut & Install Skirting Board, Baseboard Internal Corners
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- In this video I show you how to create the perfect internal corners for your baseboards or skirting boards.
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Creating internal corners with mitred edges is problematic because if the mitre is cut slightly inaccurately or the walls aren't completely square, your mitre won't fit.
So this is a time honoured, traditional way to create an internal corner. All you need is a coping saw and a little bit of practice! Good luck and let me know how you get on!
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A very clear tutorial all round. (a 'blessed relief to have no music to 'cloud the issue') Thank you so much for sharing your wealth of knowledge so generously.
Can’t believe it. After 40 years of messing about on occasions trying to get a decent skirting board joint and finally I’ve followed your method and it looks brilliant. Thanks so much.
This is by far the best tutorial I have found, thank you!
Thanks for this.. I've watched a few videos on how to do this and yours is the easiest to follow
Just watched this and went to like it but already did last time I installed some skirting, so thanks again, will keep coming back!!
Thanks Sarah. I really appreciate that and am so glad you found it useful.
I can say with absolute certainty that I've never not taken anything useful away from your videos ! Really clear , concise and efficient videos that solve the infinite questions when renovating. You've solved many a problem for us. Thanks Charlie , you're a hero. Please keep up the good work !
Matteo, can't thank you enough for that! I'm just so chuffed you're finding my vids useful. Did you stumble across this one, which is a bit of a skirting board update that includes more info on scribing joints like this th-cam.com/video/qhe3Waq6Ac4/w-d-xo.html 👍
@@CharlieDIYte Thanks Charlie , I'll check it out . ✊
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I've been dying to get on with my remodeling and I have decided it is time to get crafty and learn how to do theses things. Vids like this make that possible thank you
Brilliant sir I watched it before as well and its much better video without music to understand better.
Good tutorial.. No need for music. Well spoken delivery too
Thanks Paul. The music is a thing of the past, but unfortunately I can't remove it from videos I've already posted :(
Excellent real world video. No music is good! Cheers
Thanks Michael. Yes the music in my early videos was a massive error 🤦
So clear and easy, thankyou, was getting rather worked up at the prospect of joining skirting!!!.... and so good WOTHOIT music!!!!
well done Charlie a great video. I like this idea better then using the mitre saw.
thanks charlie im learning from your vids how to do things right and its looking great ,i love the way you present your videos straight to the point and reasons why you go about it ,superb
Very helpful thanks. I showed this video to my builder who is doing my extension and he was very impressed.
+Shiraz Chanawala Thanks for the feedback Shiraz! Nice to hear something complimentary from the trade - they're often annoyed at what I'm doing and try to find some way to criticise!
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I’m about to try this at the weekend. I used your wash coat on fresh plaster video to help me last week and now my walls are fully painted :)
This is a better video th-cam.com/video/-ZJLzHCezzU/w-d-xo.html Glad to hear the mist coating went well, and thanks for getting in touch. 🙏
Lovely job. Was always told to scribe internal corners and mitre external, just makes sense! However sometimes you can get away with mitred internals! Also what I do is cut a 45 degree mitre and use the shadow outline to cut out the waste, little quicker. I think I have the same coping saw as you I am always cursing it but never get round to buying a new one lol
Such a helpful video. I'd never have figured out these helpful tricks if I had a thousand walls
Brilliant, thank you. Hope this will save me a lot of time 👏👏👏
This update is probably a better one as I outline a simpler process for doing this th-cam.com/video/-ZJLzHCezzU/w-d-xo.html
Great video ! I’m ready to start putting on my skirting boards now. Many thanks.
Thanks Jon. Hope it goes well!
Excellent video, thank you. Good to see someone doing this with just home tools. I have seen this technique before and tried it but it didn't work out too well. Your video has shown an easier approach and I can see what I was doing wrong. Hallway skirting to install this week and I'll use your method.
Thanks Adie. If you have time, take a look at this video as well as it's an updated take on the whole skirting install thing th-cam.com/video/qhe3Waq6Ac4/w-d-xo.html Good luck with the hallway install 👍
I'm revamping my bathroom at the moment and will shortly be fitting skirting boards so I'll be using your technique. I think i'll be practicing on some off cuts before I do it for real. Thanks for the video.
You're very welcome. Thanks for taking the time to comment!
Very helpful video. Hope it works with solid pvc torus just as easily! Glad too that there was no music which I find very distracting when one is trying to learn a new skill.
Many thanks.
cut off 1 inch off the end off the skirting board and use it as your templet to draw around much easier than holding a long piece of board !!
better still cut 6 inch off with a scribe on each end as a pattern for marking.
This is just what I've been looking for. Doing my bathroom and was having a nightmare with the corners when fitting the new skirting boards. Great video and good to follow.😁
Thanks so much for taking the time to comment - much appreciated!
OMG simply the best tutorial for scribing corners I've found - and I've looked at a lot. Thank you Charlie - awesome!
Hey, thanks so much for posting this. I found it very interesting and helpful 🙂
You're very welcome Leslie. Thanks for the comment 👍
good job mate. very practical. very helpful. thank you.
Thanks and I've just done an update showing an easier way to do it th-cam.com/video/-ZJLzHCezzU/w-d-xo.html 👍
Your videos are awesome! We’re renovating our house at the moment and making videos every step of the progress! Can’t wait to start decorating 😁
You're very kind mate! I'll keep them coming and in the meantime, good luck with the renovations and thanks for your support!
Charlie DIYte Thanks! I’m subscribed and already learned all kinds from you!
Thanks Liam, comments like yours make all the hours spent filming and editing worth while!
This is fantastic! Thank you for your help.
You're very welcome. 👍🏻
When scribing a Torus joint I find cutting a 45 degree mitre and shading out the lip, cutting a straight and coping around the detail a great technique; love yours too though!
YEP! the 45 mitre is a much easier method as there is less material to navigate with the coping saw
Great video. It's so sporadic that I have to do skirting that I always get in a muddle when scribing. This was very well explained with a couple of tips I didn't know already.
Thanks Luke. There's an update on this here th-cam.com/video/qhe3Waq6Ac4/w-d-xo.html that you might take a look at if you have a spare moment.
really helpful and I'll give it a go tomorrow!
Nice vid. I had to do a bedroom bay with 30 degree angles which proved tricky, I ended up using a small angle grinder with a flap disc instead of the coping saw. It gave a much better edge and detailing and also it allowed me to easily cut back behind the board to give a shallow angle so the edge was still good for the awkward angles of the bay :) Basically I did an initial 45 degree cut to get the edge and then angled the flap disc from behind the board and up to the edges but with a 20 degree back cut. Also for the flat cut at the bottom before the detailing I simply used the disc and effectively cut/sanded back to the edge and then angled the disc to finish that bit with the angled cut back behind the board, simple and a perfect straight line.
Great work Steve. I hadn't thought of that 👍
Can you come round my house and show me how to fit seven American white oak door frames, doors, architrave, engineered flooring and skirting? I promise I'll watch very closely just in case I ever decide to have a go myself.
It'll take him months
Very useful, thanks for the video.
Great video. Thanks for no annoying music!!!!
Great im currently putting plywood on my bathroom floor for lino to be fitted need new skirting boards and can't wait to have a go at cutting it properly
Hi Charlie. I notice your window seat. Have you had any ideas to create a storage/window seat? It woukd be a good video to watch.
Top video. Very helpful. Just what I needed as I am fitting pine torus to my spare room.
Prefer no music (so thumbs up to that) - + excellent tutorial
Thanks David. Yes the music was a massive error in my old videos 🤦🏻♂️
Perfect,, really! Perfect is running 3mm rad around front bottom edge, your welcome,, thanks darren.
very helpful, and different from various other tutorials on this topic where you use more common/cheaper tools.
Thanks for taking the time to comment Kevin. Really appreciate that!
Perfect job. Explained clearly. Taking time on the detailing always pays off.... subscribed;)
Thanks Charlie! This was very useful !
Enjoying this video. I can now see the point of scribing.
Everywhere I see you should scribe not mitre internal corners. But does this depend how skilled you are. I have seen the same person do a mix and tbh I think the scribed ones don't really look the best, while the mitred ones look neater.
Also if you were putting up a new internal wall where there was already skirting (or dado etc) where would you cut the existing skirting before you scribed in the new piece? At the point it reached the new wall or have it go through "into" the new wall? Just trying to understand strategies as this isn't something i have thought about before.
The trouble is if you mitre the internal corner it might look neat initially assuming you've got a perfect 90 degrees corner but can quickly look awful as the wood warps and a gap opens up. Mitre external corners scribe internal. Not sure what you mean with your other question. It doesn't matter which side you run into the corner.
Lovely work made that look easy great results in the end Thanks
Nice job. Very helpful and well done!
Thanks Ray!
Great video man thank you!
You're welcome. There's a bit of an update here, if you're interested th-cam.com/video/qhe3Waq6Ac4/w-d-xo.html 👍
Mitered mine today as i forgot to put the Copping saw on the van, luckily the walls were square , i did slip a thin packer in on a couple to kick the board straight on the mitre. Best to scribe internals for sure.
+atommachine And presumably mitred with a chop saw? Thanks for the comment - good to get an endorsement from someone who clearly knows his stuff!!
Yep Chop saw msl100 , light and covers most regular work. ATB.
atommachine Nice
good stuff thank you
Thanks for the comment 👍🏻
Question about measuring to cut the mitre. Do you need to measure and mark the exact length of skirting or do you need to go further to take in to account the mitre cut?
Are you talking about on an external corner, as my scribed, internal corners don't have mitres? On the external corners, I tend to mark a line where the skirting ends on the wall, and then draw a mitred 45 degree angle from that point out, and then make the cut.
excellent help thank you
nice and clear and simple, thanks!
why not just cut a 45° angle then follow the edge much easier than trying to draw around the skirting.apart from going the long way round good tut for first timers
john19799
You are 100% right but sometimes it's not working
Like you trying to saying
john19799 isn't entirely right in my opinion. There are two good reasons why you scribe rather than cut a 45 degree angle. 1) It's actually really hard for your average DIYer to cut a perfect 45 degree angle - both in terms of the angle itself, but also keeping it true all the way down the plank - and this can be further complicated if the plank is a bit warped; 2) if your walls aren't exactly 90 degrees, then you will end up with a gap. You will also end up with a gap if you don't get a perfect cut as described in 1) above. So all in all, the scribing technique is a more reliable way to do this.
I think your point Faisal that it's not working sometimes demonstrates what I say :)
And that's precisely my point John! If your cuts aren't precise, or if your walls aren't 90 degrees, then your method leaves an unsightly gap. Unless you have a chop saw (which most DIYers don't), it's really hard to produce a perfect 45 degree cut, and this can be made worse if the timber is slightly warped. With the scribing method you don't get this problem.
Thanks for getting involved though - always good to have these discussions!
Charlie DIYte ok well yes i use a chop saw but also my corners are done using an sliding bevel and compass for exact angle
if u have a mitre saw cut an internal mitre 45degrees then follow the end grain line along the face with coping saw ,gives a natural line to follow
Very interesting and informative... I notice that your workmate style bench has a plywood top (as both of mine do)... much better than the newer mdf tops... Do they still make them with the plywood tops?
Thanks! I'm not sure but they're easy to replace - as I need to do with mine as it's getting a bit decrepit!
No music is great!!! Very good video i learnt a lot
Not to bad and no music makes it even better
Mark-Done Right Remodeling Kerkering II Yes, the music was an error!
Hey charlie. A slightly quicker way. Cut the internal corner base board or skirting board on a 45. Cope out where there 45 cut meets the end grain on the skirting or baseboard then fix. Its abit quicker than having to scribe the same shape from another piece of baseboard or skirting. Little trick 🙂
great video! ye no music is so nice to watch and the information flows nicely! so many videos I watch on youtube are ruined by music raging in the background of the tutorial theres no need for it!
Thanks Conor. I'm afraid I was guilty of that in my early vids. You guys soon told me to turn it off though 🤣👍🏻
Nice vid. Hopefully this will translate well onto my flimsy mdf skirting boards...
Nice and Easy to follow,. It's fair to say though that most baseboards/skirting boards will be painted after being fitted, so any small gap when the corners are butted up can be filled with paintable filler..
Yes, exactly, and decorators caulk is often used as the filler
very good ta
You're welcome 👍🏻
Gotta luv Charlie
After years of scribing internals I’ve opted no longer to do this (evening though I enjoy the making the perfect scribe), I’ve reverted back to using mitres using an angle finder which I can then convert to the chop saw, I also use PU glue and pin them now, just find this method much quicker and more efficient non gaps after periods of time.
wow
great advice as always
gc19901 Thanks - appreciate that!
The proper way it's done
Thanks 👌👊
Never 45 mitering anymore skirting boards again. Thank you.
That's great to hear Abul. Have you seen my most recent vid on this? I do a bit more corner scribing in that one: th-cam.com/video/qhe3Waq6Ac4/w-d-xo.html
Good job Charlie. Thanks for vid.
Thanks Phil. Much appreciated!
Very helpful, many thanks. Just subscribed.
metals That's great news - many thanks! Glad you found the video useful.
excellent tip
nisancashi2241 Thanks!
I have some mdf skirting brought as primed but its coated, would this scribing method work without damaging the coating? i'll probably buy a mitre saw to do the job
I would use this method on MDF, but by all means mitre it if you're more comfortable doing that.
Wow good job pall
It's very helpful
Respect huge respect
Cheers mate - much appreciated!!
How would you go about external corners
I'd mitre them. I covered this in this video bit.ly/3cfJHvG
Brilliant
Thanks. There's a bit more detail on this in my skirtings video th-cam.com/video/qhe3Waq6Ac4/w-d-xo.html
Really useful thanks.
No music is good, keep it simple.
Thanks for the comment. Much appreciated!
Very helpful
Thanks Kevin!
Watched numerous of these as my first attempts scribing the skirting wasn't sitting on the floor so the top profile needs cutting back I can see hes done it in the first part of the video as when he offers the skirting up can see the corner top is cut off and it fits perfect. Please explain this.
The thing is Dave, you should always scribe from the bottom, clearly, but no two skirtings are exactly the same, so sometimes I needed to plane a few slithers off the top, to get them to line up (at least I imagine that's what I did - can't remember, to be honest).
@@CharlieDIYte thanks Charlie. I did my entire last house is chamfered skirting and its only recently helping others ive noticied I need to get a bit off the top. Thanks for clarifying tho I thought I was going mad! I've noticed square top skirting profiles such as torus scribe the best as you can cut the 45, do the scribe and then at the top as if looking at skirting from birds eye view cut it back to 90 for that nice corner 😀
Great job, how do you do external corners plz
Superb. Thank you.
You're welcome. Thanks for taking the time to comment!
Can I use junior saw if I don’t have a coping saw?
Thank you, very handy.
This is great. But what should I do with external corners?
Great tutorial for corners but wish it had detail on how to fasten the skirting to the wall/floor... Glue or screws or nails?
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Love this video. Giving me the confidence to get on with my skirting board project.
I have two external mitres in the room I will be working on.
Any advice?
Thanks Alun. Have you seen the more comprehensive version th-cam.com/video/qhe3Waq6Ac4/w-d-xo.html. On external corners you can either mitre them with a chop saw if you have one, or with a mitre box - which you can make yourself as I explain in this vid. Get yourself some mitre bond which is a great way to bond them in position very quickly. If you don't get it completely right funny worry, you can always fill with 2 part wide filler.
Thanks Charlie.
Will go straight to it! Thanks for the sound advice. You’re certainly making me look like I know what I’m doing, occasionally!
Surely it’s easier to use a mitre joint with a chop saw ?
Fantastic
This is probably the hardest and slowest way to cut internal skirting scribes, might work on these simple skirting boards but try it on a really intricate molding!
And that's not an adjustable square - it's a bevel. A better tool to use than a bevel is a compass, so your internal scribes are perfect even if the boards are cupped (not flat)
Cut the top part of the skirting at 45 degrees, then use the compass to mark the flat section.
when measuring the boards do I measure to the wall or inbetween the boards that I have already butted up at each end of the room
I went to your website to see if you had a better description, but your instructions are really hard to understand. The great thing about Charlie's videos are that they are easy to follow and he uses simple tools.
I haven't got a coping saw, would a hacksaw work or should I wait and go buy a coping saw.
+Chris Hook Hi Chris, a hacksaw is too wide a blade. It won't cut the curve unfortunately. Wait and buy a coping saw - they don't cost much.
Charlie DIYte ok I will thanks.
nice one, great video! thanks!
As my Cornish mate would say "Proper job"
Does this method work on chamfered skirting?
The problem Charlie: it's trickier than it might seem. Like vid shows, one has to put in quite some extra work. I've put in one day's initial effort now and come to the conclusion that - for my up-coming baseboard work, and after quite some failures with a Bahco coping saw etc - I'm going for an electric jig saw with a thin saw blade. But it's definitely easier to skip mitreing on the inside corner, as you say. It's more forgiving, as long as one carries out the profiling/scribing right.
Yes it does take a bit of practice. The jigsaw will help, but even on jigsaws that blade can wander. Thanks for the comment. 👍
Sliding bevel sir not adjustable square, but I'm old 🏫😂
Well described, good vid, and as far as the music goes I wouldn't have watched it if had a music soundtrack.
EXCELLENT THANK YOU
most joiners i know just cut the baseboard /skirting board at 45 then you can just follow the profile easy slightly back cut the scribe and perfect fit
Thanks Brian, I've also heard this from my carpenter mate Dave. I'm probably being stupid but I don't quite see what you mean. Which bit is cut at 45 degrees?
@@CharlieDIYte cut the piece you want to scribe at 45ish not important the angle then cut the straight line part of the skirt with a straight cut saw and cut the curves with a fretsaw as normal. also you can mark the front of the 45 cut with a pencil to help you see you are cutting perfect. if you need more I can send you a picture
@@brianwild4640 your method means every cut you do is a trip to the saw just to cut an irrelevant 45. Make yourself a left and right hand scribe as a pattern you will find you have marked and cut your finished scribe before you could even get the 45 cut.
@@stevehallam6495 yes have a template. For every profile and don’t lose them at trip to the saw you are there for every external anyway.
@@brianwild4640 i think you miss the point....you are still making a 45 cut just to provide you with a mark to then have to cut again.
Nice tip....thanks
Thanks Alex!
there are lots of comments suggesting cutting a 45 on the end of every length and then using this to cut to as the scribe. This method is not efficient and means many more extra cuts and trips to the saw than you actually need to do. Just make yourself a left and right hand scribe on a short piece of skirting then place this pattern to draw the shape of the scribe. In a big house with lots of scribes this is gonna save you a lot of time
Steve thanks so much for this. Yes I've had a lot of people suggesting the 45 degree cut and if I'm honest, whilst intrigued, I can't totally visualise it but I guess once I've experimented, it will be obvious. I think I probably need to do a definitive video on this putting it to bed once and for all.
This is certainly different..I’ve watched countless videos on how to do this and all say you have to first cut a 45 degree angle on the board and then back cut ect…but you can do it with straight cuts?…why would anyone bother with all the extra work if this Does the job the same way?..good video by the way.