you love it! So basically Pete has come up with this really really ingenious
idea so normally what we do is cut this altogether blue tape over it and then
hold it in place until the glue goes up but as you can see Pete's come up with
this ingenious idea of building this frame here which we can then wedge these
two bits of timber in here these two wedges and it will hold everything in
place where the glue goes off so there's no need for taping and we can make sure
that everything is nice and neat and doesn't slip anywhere what Pete's done
here is we've used an old piece of skirting just knocking around and we've cut two
45-degree angles out of it which then gives us a 90-degree here yeah so then
what we do is cut our piece of skirting with a 45 degree angle on again this
side but the opposite way around and then trim this length of skirting here to
run in line with this so this would effectively be our bottom line which
will run across the floor and this will be the top of the skirting here so
then place another piece of timber here and another piece of timber here as you
can see what we've done is put these wedges in so what that enables us to do
is clamp that in there tuck these wedges in these sliding wedges into here and
then that holds everything in nice and tightly
so hopefully you agree Pete had done an amazing job here thanks Pete! Thanks John
so we've cut our bits of skirting all right so we've got our template in place
here and as you can see that will fit nicely in there so the next process
then is to glue this up plenty of glue down the whole end of the timber and
you apply that on both pieces of timber as well use a bit of timber another
little off cut wood or your finger just to smear it all out so it's evenly coated
all the way over make sure you got it all like that
lovely and then repeat the process on the other piece
right it goes so nicely like so. Reason Pete's counter syncing those is because if you
were just to screw straight through this little piece of wood it would just split it
straight away so always pre-drill so that top block then will sit again to
the top of the skirting tight there tight in place and then set this further
block slightly up just to allow for your sliding wedges to slide in and clamp the
skirting together
Hold everything in place. Good to have some wipes handy or something just so you can clean
off the excess glue because it will obviously squeeze out of the joint as
you're tightening the joint together and you can see exactly what you're up
against. Looks like a perfectly mitred joint
okay beautiful! Cheers Pete