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?

Normally you would scribe the board to the floor, and use a final bead
of silicone or some kind of profile strip to hide the cut edge and
disguise the level changes.


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Cheers,

John.

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