How To Do Finishing Carpentry Yourself

foreign yeah when it comes to a saw blade it's Lefty  tighty because everyone was righty-tighty it   would spin loose with the rotation of  the blade so they turn it the other way here you go Jess hmm right here no you  must have trapped now it's really loose   maybe your baby your Hammer could be but  then it'll probably hit you hold on okay   it's as time as it goes all left today shouldn't  have to find custom work yeah they should just   have my thighs in the shop you know most  things I need have to be a special order   especially I have many thoughts about that okay  finishing carpentry let's teach Jess how to do   finishing carpentry the idea is that if he  can teach me then you'll definitely get it   Okay so we've got finishing carpentry to do here  in the living room in order to get completely   ready for the painter and it really is just  skirting some window jams and some architraves   so basically we start at the bottom here because  we've already got the architrage done over there   we're not going to have architraves over  here but let's we'll talk about that later   let's do some skirting okay so this skirting is  just sitting here on the ground it's not nailed or   anything and if you look at it carefully you can  see that there's an uneven get underneath it and   that's because we've got hardwood flooring here  and obviously hardwood flooring on an old house   isn't very flat on a new house you might be lucky  but usually you have to scribe the skirting to   match the floor and that's exactly what we've got  to do do I have to wear this I'm finding it very   cumbersome are you gonna take it off just for the  intro so in order to scrape to the floor there's   many ways you can scrub to a floor I've just  ripped this little piece here that's about three   to four mil thick I'll put the Imperial there it's  nice and smooth so it won't scuff up the floor   but it gives us something to scribe against  there's many ways to do this this is just how   I'm doing it so what I'm looking for when I  want to scrub this is the biggest Gap and I'm   hoping that this packet that I've ripped is at  least as thick as the biggest Gap and it looks   yeah it's not perfect it could go a bit more  but I think we're gonna have to live with that   so sorry you you make this as wide as the widest  point you make this as thick as the biggest Gap   that's what I mean yeah okay how did you  know I just guessed an experienced guess   educated guess educated guess okay all right  so you make sure that the skirting is hard   down you place your little Wii scribing piece  down and then you go crazy with the marking a nice thin pencil is the way to go this is the  Pika um I think 0.9 I think it's cool see this   here I don't know who did the flooring here  oh God they did a wonky job flame right yeah   he's not here you should do this all the way along  all the way along unfortunately they've been more   special way of doing this like now I don't have  something that holds the this down and then just   sliding this along well another way you could  do it is you could put some pins in and then   pull it up okay that's another word so if you  were by yourself that would be a good way yeah kiss foreign oh my God how am I supposed to like a dog with  stick that's too big for it I'm stuck I'm kidding   no if I turn I whack a wall you literally trying  to walk a tightrope that's how I feel I just don't   whack anything spent all this money on all this  Plastering and painting done a great job thanks I always put the planter on a slight angle   so you're cutting more off the back of the  skirting than you are off the front because   really the only thing that matters is that the  front of the skirting gets hard down to the floor gonna get it perfect to that melee Scott well  yeah I mean you're putting two Timber surfaces   side by side with one another you can do  the old do your best and cork the rest   but I think it's better to get them as close as  possible and there might still be some filling   that the painter does but you don't want to make  his job any harder than it needs to be do your   best and cook the rest I love that yeah I didn't  make that up all right let's see how good I was all right so when you push that down   still needs a bit of work I think it's  over here is like the real challenging part   so we've got that little dip there right that's  touching so it's keeping the rest of it off   you might have to turn this around that way  and be more particular with our marking here so now that I push it down I'm  getting pretty close to what we want   it's not an airtight fit but it's a lot closer we're ready to cut it to limbs now the thing  to remember is that now I've made one side or   squiggly to match the floor so the two sides of  the skirting are not equal any longer the bottom   squiggly and the top has a single bevel like this  see that little slope that's the detail at the top   and we've laid the skirting like this with  the bevel at the top but if I go and cut   this that way I'm probably going to tear  out the top bevel because of the way the   blade spins which we don't want so I've got  this little ripping which has got the same   angle as my single bevel now to stop that tear  out from happening I'm going to grab this here   match the two angles to one another  and push hard in to the fence see that no tear out and same here it's all clean  usually the way to avoid tear out would be to turn   it around so the bottom of the skirting is facing  the fence and then you're cutting into the bevel   but the bottom of our skirting is all squiggly  so we can't do that foreign the technical term   yeah oh I feel like squiggles actually oh  don't say that we've got work to do okay so now that we've got it fitting how we want  it we have to make a decision about where we   put the join now I've decided to put the  miter down at this end unfortunately we're   like What one foot away from the corner of  the whole room so basically you want to put   your join somewhere where if the joint ever  opens up you're not really going to see it   shouldn't matter you should glue and pin  it so you don't see it regardless but I   always like to turn the miter away from the  predominant viewing point which will be in   this case over here all the Living Kitchen  doors entryway light everything's coming   from that direction so I'm turning the miter  away from that so before I do that I'm going   to cut my last piece to make sure that  I can fit it in and then we'll pop it on so what I did there was I marked the  top of the skirting the long skirting   and then I dragged that same skirt into the end to  Mark the top again so now I've got two Marks here   and now I'm putting this up to it and it's telling  me now this needs to come down a couple of mil Mark the wall like that so I've marked the  point and I've shown myself where the angle   is so on the drop saw we know which angle  to cut now this is the way I was talking   about before you have the single bevel  facing outward so when the blade goes in   you get a cleaner cut and I can do it this  time because the bottom is parallel to the top she's in the whole video will  just be you in this corner when I learned how to do skirtings a guy called  Dean a carpenter called Dean was the guy who   taught me he was a diff guy it's not part of  the story but he he would the way he explained   it to me was what you're trying to achieve is  you're trying to hide the join so he'd set me a   challenge there were long hallways like 20 meter  long hallways he goes you you run the skirting   on there and I'll come back and if I can find the  join then you haven't done a good job so that was   my goal was to join all the miners so perfectly  that you couldn't see the joint and when he came   back later on he walked down the hallway I had  a lot came back and went good job have fun that   was the Rialto Newmarket wasn't it oh yeah so  if you're in Auckland next time you go to the   Rialto movie theater in your Market you look at  those they're skirting you look at those kiddings   you look for those joints and you let us know if  you're walking into the cinema it's the part from   the where you buy your tickets and then you go to  the cinema all those hallways you see any joints   you can be like Scott Scott Brown you're useless  Squarespace is a website building platform where   you can stand out and succeed online whether you  have an e-commerce business or you have services   like building or catering or music lessons you  can advertise it all in Squarespace using their   wide array of templates that are customizable  drag and drop your own information your photos   your text and Squarespace will do the rest  now optimize everything so it looks good on   your phone looks good on your iPad looks good on  your desktop you don't have to adjust it if you're   selling stuff they have e-commerce 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I like to put an angle on it so it doesn't just  pull out so it's hard to pull out and you just   want to push it down so it's hard to the ground  as you go so like that yeah but make sure you   use your left hand push it down oh [ __ ] like  that yep yep and then turn around the other way all right yep cool I get you to do the rest just  feel like I'm gonna do it wrong no no you're doing   a good job it was finishing carpentry TV where I  learned that nail it in on an angle huh and why   again uh it just helps it grab better oh yeah  because it's not going to pull out as easily   yeah shout out to Richard Ellie you know it's  finished in carpentry I mean it's in the name   well I think I've failed the  can you see the joint test   but as a good Carpenter I used to work for  used to say a good painter will fix that what do you do here you can't have that too  ugly things butt into one another so this is   what I do on a single bevel corner like this is I  buttered in make sure it's sitting nice and tight   and then I indicate the angle For My  Future Self so what we do is we cut   that miter that we just indicated on the top  so it's just that 45 into the corner don't   know if I'm describing that well for you guys  watching but I'll just show you how about that so we've cut this miter now the next  thing is we bring this saw back over   and then we go beyond zero the  angle doesn't matter I tend to   go 10 degrees so I'm sorry if you  can't see me but this is what we do so I've created this little slice here now  I just got to complete the slice making   sure that I keep the top part intact and  that's the part that has the miter on it you go and then give it a push oh that is satisfying  yeah so it's got a cut on the back yeah like   there's tiny little bit of Timber stick on the  top how do you stop that from breaking though   well you just have to be careful and once you've  glued it and nailed it it won't be a problem   see this is a coping cut it's  coped okay because usually you   would use a coping saw to do it barely  coping with this tutorial but right now obviously it's important to do a good job  and be tidy but it's also important to find ways   to be efficient so when I'm on site I kind of do  this I'll go around and I'll cut everything rough   just a little bit longer than it  needs to be and then maybe I'll   put a miter on one end if there's going  to be a miter I've done that over here   and then I keep a couple of miter samples I guess  you could call them so down here I'll be able to   line my corner up it's pretty good there and then  I can hold it in place and get my Mark here at   the short point of this miter using the corner  of the wall here as my guide and then always   indicate the angle now rather than running  away and cutting that we'll pick up this one and do the same here and then I've also got one  over on that side and then I can do this one   so having the angle indicator really helps when  you do this kind of thing because you're cutting   so many miters at once you're not going to  remember right then we do all three cuts foreign so this part here usually I would just hook my  tape on like this and measure corner to corner   and that'll be my two short points another way  you could do it you could cut your piece longer   than it needs to be like that and then flip  it upside down and then make a little blood   rush to your head or don't be silly and just  Mark the back like this and mark the back here   and then you've got two marks there that will  be a show Point and then you just transfer those   marks over to where you'll see them on the saw and  then what do you do you do your angle indicators   so there's no confusion when  you get back to the source okay once that bottom done  higher than I need to be on both how do you know that pulling the pencil  on the bottom like that is the correct   measurement it's not the correct measurement  it's more about getting a parallel line   for instance if I follow that pencil line that's  actually too much okay it's actually too much if   I take all that off but at least I've got  a parallel line to cut to that is how much   I need to take off the bottom so that's about two  mil on the top there that's what I really need to   take off the bottom so as long as my two mil cut  is parallel to that bottom pencil mark we're good all right I'm happy with that  now this feature wool behind me   well the internet boxes and stuff are that  doesn't need a skirting because it's going to be   it's gonna have a built-in  cabinet that I'm going to build   which I'm very excited about it's going  to be a while it's low priority because   we've got a kitchen we've got a  laundry but it's going to be nice thank you

Channel: Scott Brown Carpentry

Views: 168,955

Keywords: Finishing carpentry, How to do skirting, Baseboard, How to timber trim

Id: l8OwZye7I1E

Length: 19min 39sec (1179 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 01 2023