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alan_m

On 10/09/2019 08:44, wrote:
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 withÂ* 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?

Thanks.

Bill.

It's called "scribing". Put the timber in place, propped in places if
necessary, then find a small spacer that's the size of the smallest gap.
Rest a pencil on the top of the spacer and run the spacer along the
floor so that the pencil draws the floor profile on the wood, then cut
with whatever is must appropriate (jigsaw, sander, rasp, surform,
scraper) to the line.

I did similar using an opened out cardboard box as a template, I then
cut the card to check the fit at the floor and then transferred the
information to my kick-boards.

Don't forget to seal any raw chipboard edges as any water from mopping
floors etc. will make untreated chipboard to swell.

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