What is the beauty of the decorative element - skirting? This is not only a strict functionality aimed at hiding defects in walls, ceilings or flooring. It is also a visual orientation, laconically limiting and ordering living space. And if this plinth floor wide plastic - it's stylish and modern. A skirting board with correctly cut corners and ends "works" to contrast with the environment, thus harmonizing its content. That's it, skirting!
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Above and below the plinth
Among the variety of building materials, the decorative and at the same time protective element skirting occupies a special position. Indeed, being on the border of two planes of living space, it is necessary to hide the gap that has formed from prying eyes.
So, the ceiling skirting cover the angle between the wall with the wallpaper and the ceiling, creating a kind of pulling the end of the wall. The plinth has become so fond of the masters that it has acquired universal qualities. With the help of skirting, not only the walls, the floor and the ceiling are closed, but also use a skirting board as a decorative finishing element.
There are the following types of plinth:
• Ceiling (fillet)
• ordinary floor
• floor with cable channel
• for the coating plant on the wall (the profile is fluted)
• ribbon plinth.
Naturally, for each profile of the skirting board, there are different ways of installation, the prerequisite of which is correct trimming of corners.
Helpful Tips
Many people know about the existence of special skirting boards. Therefore, you should not confuse the floorboard with the ceiling, and even more so try to change their places when installing. It will not become more beautiful from this. What is intended for the ceiling is not at all suitable for sex or vice versa.
How to properly cut corners of plinth
When installing skirting with your own hands, the most important moment is the process of cutting corners for subsequent mating. Traditional rules for conjugating the corners of the plinth assume the cutting of two separate parts at an angle of 45 degrees relative to the axial arrangement.
This means that the trimmed right-hand member of the plinth should find a symmetrically located left-hand member. Neatly matched corners of the skirting board are considered classics of finishing works.
How to cut a corner on a skirting board
Ceiling plinth (fillet) is a figured decorative bar and is familiar to us, as an element of hard foam PVC or gypsum.
For the fillet, you can use the finished fittings from the corners into which the plinth is inserted. To join the ceiling skirting without the use of corners, trim the ends at an angle using a chair. How to trim the ceiling skirting by the rules? To trim the corners of the skirting board, make the necessary measurement of its length and location.
Then, the fillet is laid in a stool and pressed firmly. The required cutting angle is achieved with the use of a sharp knife or a hacksaw, excluding mechanical interference with the fillet.
The adjacent skirting board is cut out on the other slit at the same angle. The finished skirting board is applied to the ceiling and glued with special glue, carefully adjusting and masking the cut.
Useful advice. How to choose a chair
The chair should be equipped with eccentric and screw clamps and a high-quality hacksaw. The chair should have a comfortable wide stanitsa, on which there is a plinth or clypeus. The clamps must be twisted and twisted in half-turn. For ease of use on the guiding devices make marks - "internal" and "external" corners.
We cut the corners of the floor plinth
Plinth ordinary floor is the most common type of decoration. Ordinary skirting boards are made of wood and plastic. For wooden skirting use inexpensive varieties of wood and veneer. Plinth ordinary is designed for flooring.
Plinth floor PVC are durable, easy to install and use, and inexpensive.
The most demanded is the skirting floor with the cable channel with the provided internal cavity for the installation of communications.
According to the rules, the installation of skirting boards is started from the corner. For external corners, the edges are creased "in the face", which means that the angle of cut is also 45 degrees. Naturally, it is possible to produce a smooth cutting "on the mustache" only with the help of a chair. The ends of the floor fused skirting boards are adjusted using a rasp or a grinding machine.
floor plinth with cable channel
Preparation of the floor skirting consists in cutting of elements of a certain length on the whole wall. Measuring work is done carefully and accurately, given the location of the corner plugs and joints. When measuring the skirting, it must be in an unsharpened state. After marking, the plinth with the cable channel is dismantled, because the main panel and decorative strip are cut separately.
Each part is marked in a stool and cut with a saw or a hacksaw at the required angle. A plastic skirting board can be cut at a right angle, because the edges will be covered with a decorative plug. This is how the outer and inner corners of the plinth with the cable channel look.
This video will tell you in detail how to cut the corners of the skirting floor and ceiling.
Moldings from molding, flexible and konneljurnyj. How to cut corners
The winged skirting board, designed for the coating plant on the wall, is a plastic bar of the kind of rounded trapezium. Such a plinth is installed and smoothly wound on the wall. The rounded profile does not require preparation and cutting of corners during docking.
And, at last, the simplest variant of decorating is a soft plinth or skirting ribbon, the corners of which can be cut without using and using tools.
Such a flexible joint is convenient when connecting curvilinear and multi-level surfaces, as well as edging of columns.
The textured flexible joint consists of a profile and a mounting plate, which are simply mounted. To do this, it is enough to heat the plinth, install and snap the mounting plate. For flexible skirting, there is no need to cut corners.
We cut the angles of the ceiling molding with a large pattern in the following way. Cut out a piece of molding with a textured pattern and add a few centimeters on both sides. Then divide the segment in half and produce the markings in the traditional way. The result of the docking should be a neatly selected general drawing.
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