Whichever expensive repairs you do not start, you will hardly be able to avoid unevenness at the border of the wall and ceiling. In order to hide them, use a ceiling skirting board.
Types of ceiling skirting boards
Today, the market offers a huge range of ceiling skirting boards. Here's what materials they produce:
- polystyrene;
- polyurethane;
- wood ;
- gypsum;
- Styrofoam.
A wide variety of ceiling skirting allows everyone to choose the right one. Ceiling baseboards are narrow and wide, the most simple and decorated with exquisite patterns and reliefs. So do not neglect this building find, because the ceiling skirting will give a completely finished look to your repair and decorate any room.
Since the installation of the ceiling skirting board - it's not a difficult thing, many prefer not to spend extra money on skilled workers, and independently fix them. How to cut and fix the ceiling skirting correctly? Let's consider this issue further.
How to cut corners of a ceiling skirting board?
Since the average person does not have a lot of specialized construction tools in the arsenal, we offer you to read the recommendations on how to trim the angle of the ceiling skirting with a simple tool. To do this you will need:
- The chair.
- Saw for metal.
- A sharp knife.
A stool is a tray with special slots at different angles. Such a tool is a necessary thing in the household, besides it is inexpensive. To trim the corners of the skirting board, you just need to take a chair with 90 and 45 degrees angles.
To cut the angle of the ceiling skirting, you should do the following:
- apply a plinth to the ceiling and measure;
- We lay the plinth on the bottom of the stool so that its lower part is pressed against the wall of the instrument;
- neatly cut the plinth with a metal saw along the slot of the tray, where the angle of 45 degrees is indicated. Do not press hard to not damage the plinth;
- Similarly, a contiguous plinth is cut off on another 45-degree slot;
- attach two plinths to the place of their gluing and, if necessary, eliminate small irregularities with a sharp knife.
As you can see, there is nothing complicated in this operation. But how to cut off the angle of the ceiling skirting, if you do not have a chair? There is an exit. It is necessary to act as follows:
- Cut the skirting board at an angle of 90 degrees and attach to the corner on the ceiling;
- Draw a line on the ceiling at the edge of the plinth;
- on the opposite wall, perform a similar operation with an adjacent skirting board;
- The point of intersection of the two skirting boards on the ceiling is alternately transferred to the skirting boards, marked with a pencil;
- draw a straight line from the marked point on the skirting board to its sharp opposite edge - this will be the cut line;
- we cut the plinth very carefully with a sharp knife.
If in this case you can not make a smooth cut, draw a line with a 45-degree intersection on the sheet or a plank and attach a plinth there to the line so that the line on it corresponds to the specified corner. It is better if someone helps you in this case and fixes the ceiling skirting on such a makeshift chair so that you can cut the edges evenly.
It happens that the unevenness of the walls does not allow you to glue the plinth even after its ideal pruning. In this case, you need to determine the degree of trimming individually. That's why it's so convenient to use a self-made painted stool.
In order not to spoil the ceiling skirting, before you cut it, practice doing it on small pieces. Thus, you can "fill your hand" and make a cut more confidently each time.