|
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|
|
Uneven floor/skirting and kickboards
On 10/09/2019 05:41, wrote:
I've just spent half a day ****ing around with the router to get a 3m length of kitchen unit kickboard fitting reasonably tidily on a quite uneven floor. The floor doesn't look that uneven, but when you put a long, straight edge on it, lumps and hollows everywhere. The unmolested board was touching floor at each end and floating in air in the middle. Trimming the ends, the touch points of the kickboard moved to various points along its length; trim those and same again.
So, my question is: is there a better way to do it than rough measurements, followed by many iterations of fine adjustment, to get best fit? Against a hard surface (which this was), a kickboard or skirting board with completely faithful reproduction of the contours of the floor can look naff, drawing the eye to the unevenness. The trick seems to be to go some way to accommodating the ups and downs, but accepting that gaps between floor and board might be unavoidable for best overall appearance.
I'm aware of bendy profile strips that can be used to reproduce uneven surfaces, but I don't think that one of these would have helped over a 3m length.
What do pros do?
They lay the strip on top of the floor and, using a spacer, draw a line
onn it , say 1cm above the floor, with a pencil.
Then they cut along that line.
Thanks.
Bill.
--
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established
authorities are wrong.
Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV
|