The installation of skirtings along the perimeter of the floor allows you to hide the wallpaper neatly, fix the floor. A quality installation of floor skirting will help in the future to conduct a hidden laying of cables, remove unsightly communication and make the interior of the room beautiful and stylish. When selecting skirting boards, special attention should be paid to their design and quality. Carefully selected products will last for many years and will give the room an original look.
Contents
- Required Materials
- Step-by-step installation instructions for floorboards
- Installation Advisors
- Video skirting boards with your own hands
Required Materials
For work, you will need to prepare a double skirting board with cable laying. The product has soft edges, which will make the transition smooth and neat. The advantages of this type is the ease of subsequent removal during repair. For example, if the owner needs to hold a new wallpaper, it will be enough for him to remove the top part of the prefabricated plinth, to finish the walls. After the installation of the plastic skirting( its upper part) and at this stage the repair will be completed.
In addition to installing skirting boards you will need to purchase accessories. It is selected according to the shape of the room( the number of corners, transitions).The contractor will need to buy corner adapters and limiters, which are installed on the baseboard near the doorways, connectors of the strips.
For fixing the products to the wall, you will need to purchase 6x40 mm dowels, and the performer will also need a drill with which he will prepare holes for the wall fasteners.
Step-by-step instruction for installing the baseboard on the floor
Before starting the installation, it is recommended to study the attached video and photo materials: they will help to see the overall picture of the work. Also, the owner will need to study the features of assembling and connecting individual slats. Independent installation of the floor skirting is carried out according to the following instructions:
1. A corner joint is being assembled, applied to the installation site, the places for the preparation of the holes for the dowels are selected.
2. The upper part of the skirting boards is removed, and holes are drilled at the bottom and dowels are installed. Then self-tapping screws are screwed. The approximate distance between the fasteners is 30 cm. Also do not forget to remove the dust with a vacuum cleaner.
3. Next, a skirting board along the wall is displayed. At the junction of the two bars, it is necessary to fix the adapter. For this purpose, the transition fittings are attached to the already fixed product( to the top part).After that, the adjacent skirting board is installed and its upper part is installed.
4. When installing corner joints, it is necessary to use plugs( for the inner or outer corner).They are installed on a similar principle.
5. After completing the installation of skirting around the perimeter of the room, you can proceed to install end caps near the doorways. At this stage, the work will be done completely and the performer will only have to evaluate its quality.
Installation Advisors
It is recommended to choose skirting boards of high quality, which have sufficient softness: they are easier to drill. All adapters must be identical in color and pattern to the main elements, otherwise the transition will be inharmonious and ugly. And in order to understand how to fix the plinth to the floor without problems, it is necessary to carefully read the enclosed instruction and perform the screwing according to the described rules.
An important point will be an assessment of the convenience of installing the plinth PVC: under the places where the dowels will be there should be no communication or pipes. Any obstacles must be "circumvented."For example, near the pipe, you can screw the plinth and close its protrusions end caps. Then the transition will look neat, and the plinth will be able to stylishly frame almost the entire perimeter of the room.
