How to fix a plinth

Probably, each of us had to buy a skirting board. Modern skirting boards are beautiful and there are a variety of colors. It is these products that give the room a complete look. From this article you will learn how to cut a skirting board and install it yourself. In general, the mounting of the skirting board is quite difficult work, which requires the knowledge of some subtleties and nuances of the procedure. Of course, you can entrust the process to professionals. However, if you make a little effort, you will succeed.

Table of contents:

1. What are the skirting boards
2. Tools and materials
3. Installation of plastic skirting boards
   • Determination of the amount of material
   • Preparatory work
   • Installation of slots of the skirting board
   • Cable laying
4. Wooden skirting board
   • Substitute of the skirting board
   • Additional recommendations

What are the skirting boards

Installation of skirting boards is the final stage of work on the decoration of the premises. It is impossible to overestimate the aesthetic functions of the plinth, because it levels the lower lines of the wallpaper, and also makes a beautiful transition between the walls and the flooring. Before installing the plinth, you need to choose it. Building stores offer their customers a huge selection of skirting boards, which are made of wood and plastic. But in any case, such products have one purpose of hiding and decorating the corners between the walls and the floor.

The difference between plastic and wooden skirting boards, first of all, consists in appearance. If your floor is covered with parquet, then, of course, you should not practice imitation of plastic wood, you should immediately buy a wooden skirting board. If the walls are not distinguished by increased evenness, plastic skirting boards should be installed that can hide such shortcomings due to their own ability to bend. In addition, a plastic skirting board in its composition has a box through which you can skip a telephone cable.

Before installing the plinth, you need to choose the methodology for attaching it to the wall and find out how to cut the angles of the skirting board. You can use liquid nails as a simple option, however, the walls in this case should be as smooth as possible, otherwise there will be no use from such nails. The most common solution is the hidden fastening of skirting planes, since the next time the skirting board is used to be easily removed and installed back.

Tools and materials

The necessary materials and tools for the installation of skirting boards:

1. Punch or drill with drills of different diameters;
2. Screwdriver and screwdriver;
3. Knife -haired carriage for metal or professional manual knock;
4. Transporter, building corner, roulette;
5. Grinder;
6. Marker, pencil, hammer and nails;
7. Knife;
8. Chisel and grinding skin;
9. Vacuum cleaner.

Installation of plastic skirting boards

A flexible plastic skirting board can be installed on screws. Such a mount is used in the presence of a channel for hiding fasteners or cable. There are models that have a lid for the cable channel, also the fasteners can be hidden with caps that repeat the texture and the color of the skirting board.

Determination of the amount of material

To calculate the number of skirting boards and compounds, you need to carry out such manipulations:

• Measure the perimeter of the room.
• Add to the resulting number 1.5-2 meters and divide the amount by 2.5, by the standard length of one plinth profile. After that, the result is recommended to be rounded up. So you will learn the required number of skirting boards.
• By the number of internal and external angles, you can find out the number of corners for the skirting board.
• The number of connectors can be calculated at the rate of wall length: less than 2.5 meters - without a connector, 5-10 meters - one connector.
• On the end of the plinth for each doorway, a left and right plug will be required.

Preparatory work

The marking of the room should start with the longest wall of the room. It is necessary to put a corner on the bar, attach to the corner of the room and look at the results. The place of the first fastener is located at a distance of 50-60 millimeters from the corner of the room. Perfectly even walls allow the rest of the marks to make a step of 40 centimeters.

If the gaps appear, the fastening step should be reduced. Having completed the markup, the baseboard can be put aside. Having adapted the perforator, you should drill holes and carefully remove the resulting dust. In drilled and clean holes, you need to score the dowels of fasteners.

Installation of slots of the skirting board

A plastic skirting board can easily be pierced with an awl or self -tapping screw, having previously guessed the place for fasteners. To do this, attach a segment to the wall and deteriorate the upper part, and seeing the dowel, break through the baseboard opposite the hole in the wall. In a fresh hole made, you should insert a self -tapping screw and tighten it with an effort into the dowel. The self -tapping hat should completely immerse yourself in the plastic of the skirting board.

If a skirting board was interspersed at the fastening site, then you need to release a slightly screw. Before installing the last section, you must first install the connector, and then you can tighten the screw. For a tight laying of the skirting board, when fastening subsequent screws, you need to pull the skirting board slightly relative to the previous fastener along the length.

The next section of the baseboard should be fixed in the connector and continue to move to the wall in a similar way. When the wall remains less than one piece of skirting boat, it is recommended to measure the distance with a tape measure, mark on the skirting board and saw off the excess. When marking the extreme areas, it should be borne in mind that the plugs will additionally take about 3-5 millimeters of the length of the skirting board.

Cable laying

In the channel for the wire, you can hide different electric wires, Internet cable, telephone cord. You can choose one of the three cable laying options. The wire can be laid along with the installation of skirting boards. The cable is laid in the channel under self -tapping screws, while it is important not to damage the cable with a screw.

The second method of laying the cable after installing the skirting board. Self-tapping screws must be slightly twisted, about 7-10 millimeters, then the cable is placed directly on the screws in the resulting gap and returned to the entire structure to its original position. If necessary, it will be necessary to cut the holes for wires in the connectors and places where the cable enters the baseboard and goes out.

And the last way to lay the wire under the lid of the cable channel. There are many models of skirting boards that have an external special cable channel covered with a lid. This allows you to easily replace or supplement the number of wires without fastening the skirting board. However, at the same time, the container is not large, and therefore it is recommended to use an additional external cable channel, and hide all the main stationary cables during installation under the baseboard.

Wooden skirting board

Wooden skirting boards in the installation are somewhat more complicated. First of all, pay attention to the state of wood. The newly acquired skirting board cannot be immediately laid, first it must be brought into the room and left there for a couple of days so that it is used to temperature and humidity.

Substitute of the skirting board

Fasten the woodwork of wood in the following sequence:

1. First you should glue the baseboard and cut out two segments of the product at an angle of 45 to obtain the required dimensions of the skirting board.
2. The baseboard must be applied to the inner corner. If a small gap has formed between the wall and skirting boards, then you can close it using wood putty. The edges of the skirting board can also be sawn with a grinder.
3. The opposite ends of the plinth are also drained at an acute angle of 45 for joining with the following segments. You can, of course, leave everything as it is at a right angle, but the connection at an acute angle is less noticeable.
4. Drill the fixed skirting board until the mark is obtained on the wall. Make the following marks at a distance of 50 centimeters to each other.
5. Further, the baseboard should be removed to the side and the holes for plastic dowels are made according to the planned marks with a drill or perforator. The holes should have a length of 1 centimeter larger than the length of the dowel. Limiters in the form of an island wound on a drill will help to drill the exact holes for dowels.
6. Drill in the skirting boards make recesses to hide the hats of self -tapping screws or nails in them. To do this, take a drill that has a diameter slightly larger than the diameter of the hats.
7. The plinth is joined in the corner. With a cross with a screwdriver or screwdriver, screws should be screwed into the cooked holes prepared. Further, the remaining skirting boards are mounted in the same way.
8. After installation around the perimeter of the skirting boards, you can putty and varnish them.

Additional recommendations

On even walls, laminated wood skirting boards can be glued with plinths or liquid nails. To go around the heating pipes, carriers used to often build a structure of 5 pieces of skirting boards, and all this was covered with cement mortar. Today, such a decision is considered not rational.

In addition to the fact that this is an additional cost of extra time, and even the place is stealing, and it always lacks it. It is better to put the baseboard along the wall, cutting, if necessary, part if the heating pipe fits tightly to the wall, and the joint of the flooring and the pipe can be sealed in other ways.

Many developers are interested in the question: how best to fix the baseboard to the floor or to the wall. It all depends on the material of the walls or type of flooring. If the wall allows it to drill and withstand shock loads, then it is better to fix the baseboard to the wall.
Now you know how to cut the angles of the plinth and how to fix the product. When installing a skirting board, do not forget that if laying improper laying, damage to the skirting board or fastening is possible. Only serviceable components and tools should be used.