How to make a wooden plinth yourself. Correct laying of the plinth on the floor (plastic and wood)

What we wanted

Having monitored the market, disappointing moments became clear: firstly, such a plinth is difficult to buy, and secondly, its price per meter depends on the height and starts from 400 rubles. For me, this is very expensive for such a seemingly simple thing, so we decided on an experiment - to do it yourself

Maybe it will seem wild to someone to make a skirting board themselves, but on the other hand, it is just a board of the required height and width, well, and a decorative element. The inspiration was these pictures from the network:

Another example

Well, really, nothing complicated ?! Let's try ...

... And we tried it almost 2 years ago, when we were doing repairs in the nursery, the result suited us, therefore, we already knew how to implement this in the kitchen, we will tell you too))

We are going to the construction market

For the manufacture of a high plinth, as mentioned above, boards and corners are needed. We will surround only the visible parts of the wall with a plinth (we are so lazy, or economical), our "perimeter" was 7.5 meters, so we get in total:

• Boards 24x120x2000 - 4 pieces, you need to choose carefully, because they are not all perfectly flat and smooth;
• Corner decorative rail 20x20x2200 - 4 pcs;

You will also need:

• White acrylic enamel;
• Brush;
• Self-tapping screws;
• Countersunk nails
• Plastic dowels;
• Saw for miter box
• Stuslo, Sasha decided to please himself and bought the most expensive model;
• Wood putty;
• Skin;

Preparatory work

To begin with, all the boards should lie indoors and "acclimatize", ideally for a week. But we have safely forgotten about this rule)))

Fitting

We wanted white skirting boards, for this they need to be painted. You can paint after installation, but it's more convenient for me to do it before.

The first coat was a primer - diluted the paint 1: 1

Water in the paint raises the pile of wood, so we grind

When the board is smooth, you can start painting. I need to overlap the wood texture as much as possible, but keep the relief. The basic rule of painting works here - several thin layers instead of one thick one. For the desired result, I needed 3 layers.

I start from the ends

At the junction of layers

Another layer

Difficulties arose with painting the corners, and in general they were not successful - a lot of knots and burrs. When priming, the paint clogged the relief, so after drying it took a long time to pick it out of the recesses. I decided to finish painting them after editing.

Installation

The next day, when the paint was dry, we started editing.

First, we decided where the joints would be. Because our wall is 4.2 meters, and the boards are 2m, we decided to make a solid board in the center of the wall, and 1.1m on the sides of the board.

I really, really regretted it - the saw was dull, or the board was very thick, in general, one saw cut took about 15-20 minutes. But he did! It's good that we have only 2 corners))

Angle at 45 0

Fitting to the wall

Sasha fixed the boards with self-tapping screws: he marked out where to insert 4-5 points on the board, then he drilled thin guide holes. Having attached the board to the wall, through the holes in the board, he marked the places for the holes on the wall. He drilled holes in the wall with a puncher, hammered in the dowels and screwed the boards to the wall.

Pilot hole

Dowel hole

Fix to the wall

Fixed

Due to irregularities in the corner, the board did not want to adhere to the wall, so I had to cut the board a little along the contour of the roughness. All the same, the gap remains, but nothing, we put putty.

Hewn plinth for wall relief

The gap is almost invisible

we attach to the GK wall immediately on self-tapping screws without dowels

Working mess

When Sasha finished, I putty all the cracks, irregularities and caps of the screws, and then sanded the excess and irregularities. Now it was the turn of the corners, we attach them to the finishing nails.

The corner is nailed to the board, you cannot nail to the floor!

If a few decades ago, skirting boards were made of wood and fastened to the floor, now there is much more choice. For example, you can purchase plastic ones, which are quite simple to mount on the floor with your own hands.

They are chosen depending on the color of the floor, and also take into account the presence of a cable channel.

Calculation of the required material

Before going to the hardware store, calculate the required amount of materials. This can be done as follows:

1. Using a tape measure, measure the perimeter of the floor - excluding the width of the openings.
2. We calculate the number of planks: the number obtained as a result of the previous steps must be divided by the estimated length of the plinth. The number must be rounded to the nearest whole number. For example, if the calculation results in 7, 5, then we buy 8 slats.
3. In addition, the calculation includes external and internal corners, connecting elements, plugs, right and left.

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How to mount?

You will need in your work:

• nails, screws;
• drill;
• screwdriver;
• glue for plastic.

For installation on the floor of skirting boards with cable channels, you will need nails or self-tapping screws:

1. First, the cable channel strip is removed from the plinth - holes must be drilled in it. They are drilled in 50 cm increments, and about 10 cm recede from the corner, the diameter of the drill used in this case will be 6 mm.
2. An inner corner is attached to the plinth and glued with glue to fix it as securely as possible. A plinth is applied from the corner, after which points are marked on the wall, in which shallow holes are then made with a drill.
3. Plastic dowels are inserted into the holes. The entire length of the plinth is fixed with screws (the latter can be replaced with dowel-nails).
4. The end of the skirting board is closed with a joint.
5. Measure the length before joining, then cut the bar. Follow in the further installation according to the above scheme. Don't forget about the markup.
6. A cable is laid in the channel and covered with a lid.

Many people around the world have faced such happiness as renovation))). Someone, this word scares to horror, but someone quite on the contrary really likes to do this business, learns and creates. Renovation of an apartment, or a country house, takes a huge amount of time, precious physical labor, and, of course, not a small amount of money from your family budget. Some people, in order not to do this long, tedious, and tedious task, hire a team of construction workers, and they do the job assigned to them in a short time. But, accordingly, the hiring of this brigade is, again, wasting your money.

Not every person has the opportunity to hire a repair team to help. So ordinary people have to do all the hard and not easy work themselves, without anyone's help. But this circumstance is only for the benefit of a person, his development, and labor hardening. Carrying out repairs on their own, a person additionally learns a lot for himself, develops creatively, and as a creator.

Do-it-yourself repairs will be more appreciated than those performed by a team of hired workers, because you will involuntarily respect your work.

The author, who conceived repairs in his country house, decided not to hire a team, and to cope with this problem on his own in order to save money for the safety of family money. Because in addition to the costs of repairmen, money is needed, and for building materials.

Building materials, on which the author also decided to save money, and make some materials on his own, with the help of an electric tool available on the farm of our owner of a country house. He decides that he will make the skirting boards himself, and will not buy this material in the store. If you look at it in detail, this is not so much, and it is difficult if you have the appropriate tool. He takes the boards he has 25 mm thick and 2000 mm long, cuts them longitudinally, cutting them into slats 50 mm wide. Then it is traversed with a cutter, and a loop-machine.

And so now let's take a closer look at what the author needed to make a homemade skirting board, and how he did it.

Materials: board 2000 mm long and 25 mm thick, paint.
Tools: electric plane, milling cutter, loop-machine, circular saw, brush.

First, I collected the instrument so that everything was at hand, and then I didn't have to look for anything.