How to cut skirting board or baseboard corners. No power tools required!

in this video I'm gonna be covering skateboards I'm going to show you how to do all the common corners that you'll find in a basic property I'll go into all the cuts that you need to produce nice neat corners without using one of these now I've done quite a few videos in the past on skirting boards and they've been quite popular but about people saying howdy there without a miter saw now they are expensive not everyone can afford them if you're only going to be doing one room then it's not worth buying one you can buy cheap ones which are quite good nowadays but again if you only do in one room it's not worth it so I'll show you how to do everything with hands hills right the tools I'm going to be using a fine-toothed power saw a coping saw tape measure sharp pencil a sliding bevel and a combination square also for a bit of fine tuning a bit of sandpaper and a wooden block that's all you're gonna need okay now set up this rig which covers all the typical corners of a room you've got an internal corner an external corner an external up to corner and an internal obtuse corner now the first piece I'm going to put in is this piece and it's just cuts a length with two straight cuts so I'll just measure it with the tape measure so I've prepared all the pieces that are just a bit oversized just for the purpose of this video I'll be Valka motive an 8 foot length there but it's handy to cut them all just roughly a bit oversized so you not trying to struggle the full length so the measurement they ended up is too far 7 so I've already got a square in there get the square square the line also if you're not too good with your cotton and you need the reference it's a good square so I've got a awake meteor which just holds the pieces while I cut them it makes life a lot simpler okay so on a panel saw it actually cuts on the push stroke so you always want to cut it from the face side so all the tear out is on the back side so all the rough bit is on the back before you break off just go careful at the edge of the molding in an internal angle we don't May through because it tends to open up and you'd always have a gap no matter how many times you call hit it always open up plus if it's not exactly square then you might all be accurate so what we do is call the scribe cuz I've actually prepared one there and that's what it looks like that just sits over the other piece of skateboard the way we get the shape is to first of all draw an accurate 45 degree on this piece I'll do it properly with the square in a minute but if that line carries on down it follows the profile shape of the skating and that'll give us the shape and which to cut out so all I'll do I want the angle coming that way so as a reference I'll just do that then I'll get the combination square accurately draw a 45-degree line then I'll square that line up guys Rock also square it on the back just as a reference so if I cut that out then we'll be left with the shape that we need to cut out to fit all the skateboard again I'm cutting from the face side solitaire out on the back now that I've cut the 45-degree off you can see how it reveals the profile of the skateboard so just take your pencil and just highlight it'll be something easier to see when you're cutting it out so there's two cuts involved in this there's the straight cut and there's also the cold cut so for the straight cut I'll use the panel saw which is designed for cutting straight and then for the cope cut I used the coping saw which is designed with the thin blade to cut brown calves and shapes but here's the little trick if you're not too good to the Kotton if you try and cut that square you'll end up with bits left on there or it might not be exactly square then you drink on clothes or properly so the little trick is it's a back cut it slightly like that so only the very front edge it's going to engage with the other piece of skateboard back what ever so slightly and it's quite straight down there I've got to do the shape the coach or the cope cuts first of all I'll cut this piece off square now cause it's square I'll just come up here and cut the excess off now like that cut was back cut I want to undercut these so I'm never going to cut square and try and cut accurately I always cut more off the back than what I need so again it's only the very front tip that's going to be engaging with the other piece of skating board so if it's gone square it'd be there but I'm back cotton and under cotton and then I'll come in from the other side now these blades can turn and you do that by loosening the handle and they'll twist always make sure your pins line up because if they don't line up and you try and cut you play they'll be twisted and it will snap but for this to our skirt and board we can keep it straight okay so again it's angled on the caught it and backwards [Laughter] so that's angled back angled away so now just go do this straight cut and again I'll angle it back few cuts and a little bit rough don't worry a little bit of rough sandpaper don't eat them they're off follow up your sandpaper and because we cut it back it's only the very front edge that we need to clean off that's not a bad fit so since you put this piece in Romero's well follow around the corner so we've got a ninety degree ish external angle I just want to put a mark at the end of the wall there and then put a reference mark so you don't get confused and you know which way you need to cut the skirting board that might not be exactly 90 degrees on most houses there nah so how do we work out what angle we need so if it was 90 degrees with half it we call 45 on this piece 45 on this piece I need to come together at 90 degrees but if this is out by a couple of degrees this way or this way that won't work it'll be gapi and it no matter how much cork you put in Lowestoft like a bad job so get a piece of skirting board or anything that's parallel and if you can draw on the floor great if you can't I'll show you in a minute so draw a line so that line is parallel to the wall and do the same on this wall I don't know whether you can see that on camera but there's the line there so there's the point so if we join up that point with the wall and that point where we've just made parallel lines to the wall so I just join them all ah has bisected the angle so now take the slam bevel up against the wall and we set it to the angle we've just drawn so then on a piece of skateboard we've got our measurement we just transfer that angle so now when we cut down there and cut the other piece then two angles you'll come together and if you can draw a line on the wall and then you can also put the angle on the bottom because you've got a bit more meat on the bottom it's easier to say it's easier to cut so now you just need to follow that line and that angle but what if you can't draw on the floor what if you've got a finished hardwood floor in that case you would get a piece of board any piece of odd or even a wide piece of skin but this happens to be a bit of oak that lying around it's the first thing you do let's get your sliding bevel and you'd set it to the shape of your wall then you transfer it over to your board so now this becomes one of your walls and then that you know the wall so one wall two walls then again take your piece skating board or anything that's parallel put it on that line draw a line put onto your other wall draw a line from that point to that point you pay sacked at that angle and you can set your mark engage that angle so that's done the same as what we've done there okay it's after the first piece cut we just need to do the same thing to this piece here so again just put it at the reference mark that way set your sliding bevel the angle again or it should still be set from before so again transfer that angle T piece and cut that off okay so cut accurately till you try and be careful and there's nothing wrong with that save a bit of time on the video I've already done the scribe cut for this internal angle so that just fits over there like that so now we've got this external obtuse angle okay so the same as what we did there to find that angle we'll do the same here so we'll put a parallel board piece of skateboard there draw your line put it on that wall draw your line way that point where the wall joins together and that point you join them up no bisection joints so as we did before just mark where the under your wall is put a witness mark it's a show which were you going to be going and if you can draw the backi wall that just gives you the angle that way if your walls not plumb so again need to set the sliding bevel to the line we've just drawn and transfer that to our piece of skating board we can do the same on the bottom so we just need to cut that angle and down that line okay so that's that piece cut so just do the same again to this so witness mark draw the angle on with the bevel plumb line angle that way so again put that angle and down that line little tiny gap but nothing a little bit of car home start that's not too bad now we come to the internal obtuse angle now this is probably the hardest because you've got a scribe one piece over the other we need to make this piece fit this wall so we take our sliding bevel and we set it to the shape of the wall and transfer a GP skateboard if you dry it on the bottom it just makes it a bit easier to see [Music] okay so that beer fits in there just like that so now we need to get another piece and as we did before for the internal corner this is another internal corner so he'll be scribing it over so always on an entail corner you do a scribe joint on an external corner you have to do a miter joint so the way we do this is the same as before well because that was close to 90 degrees with a 45 on here we need to bisect the angle again so draw your parallel lines marking on the bottom you skateboard so you've got more to Drori in the top of the profile square that line press the back across the front you see the gyro reference when you cut them cut that and that reveal the profile so now that's revealed the profile just highlighted with your pencil so it's a bit easier to see but now before when we back cut it we back cottage to just the front tapered switch the face of the skateboard now we need to back cut it so while this skateboard will fit inside here right to the way I do it I set the sliding bevel to the shape of the wall again then on the bottom of the skateboard on the back side I'll draw that angle so that's the angle needed for that bit of skateboard to sit behind here what I'm going to go a little bit further than again so only the very front tip is touching so I'm going to cut it back slightly further something like that okay so that's the line we needed to cut and we're going to slightly back with it [Music] when the two pieces come together this piece here needs to be caught into there like that so again take your Babel market on that's what you need to cut that off with a coping saw and cut off the excess now for this cope cut as with that we have to angle it right back this cope court needs to be angled right back so there is a lot of cotton involved in this so I'll do the straight go first so see the angle of me saw it needs to be cut right back to that that's not a bad joint so now a hope that I've given you enough information to be able to tackle the job yourself if you've got any comments or questions don't be afraid to leave them below all the tools of use will be available from the Amazon affiliate shop which there'll be a link in the description below so yeah there we go what's the worst that can happen thanks for watching if you enjoyed the video hit the like button and don't forget to subscribe I'll see you next time you

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Length: 20min 24sec (1224 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 28 2020