Matching Skirting Board Profile

[Prawn_Cracker]

Hi All

My first post here and after doing what I can to solve this I am in need of some advice!

I recently moved house into a Victorian property. The previous occupant left me some skirting to finish off but no skirting to finish it with. I'd say that the skirtings' not original period feature but most likely done in the last ten years judging by paper work and general appearance of what has been fitted so far.

Anyway, I need about 1.5m of skirting as per the profile attached in the pic. However, after much searching the usual DIY stores and every builders merchants on the local industrial estate, no one sells skirting with the correct torus profile. The only solution I have reached is the local joinery shop which said they could spindle mold it for around £65. Before I head back to my local joiners does anyone know of somewhere that would sell the right profile of skirting off the shelf? Alternatively, is there a 1/2" bearing guided router bit that would fit the bill? I unfortunately don't have a router table.

Apologies for the scrappy smart phone pic. Best I could do in the time I had!

Thanks in advance of any help, advice or ideas

Andy

 

[Berncarpenter]

Thats a pretty standard moulding if you search a bit more you should find it. Axminster sell a router cutter that looks the same profile for £33.95 code 666181 .

Cheers Bern

 

[Myfordman]

Stump up the £65!
Without a router table you don't stand a chance with a hand held router and in any case the router cutter would be a large proportion of the £65.

 

[deema]

+1 on stump up the £65. That's great value

 

[Berncarpenter]

It could be done without the use of a router table . Clamp or pin the 9x1 to a 9x4 so that you have a stable platform to run the router on , its a bit hairy but it will work.

Cheers Bern

 

[Phil Pascoe]

No one sells the moulding you want, or no one sells the moulding you want on a deep enough board? It doesn't appear to be too deep, so if you can get something like what you want on a 7" skirting just splice a piece on the bottom. No one will ever walk into your house and say "Oh my God! that piece of skirting doesn't match the rest!"
If you must have it made, check you won't need any anywhere else - obviously a few more metres aren't going to cost as much as the first piece, pro rata.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

It could be done without the use of a router table . Clamp or pin the 9x1 to a 9x4 so that you have a stable platform to run the router on , its a bit hairy but it will work.

Cheers Bern

I did 300 foot run of ogee about the same size the same way - not easy, but OK.

 

[Tierney]

Either keep on looking or get the joinery shop to run it up for you. I have bought similar from a timber merchants. There is accompany called Q-line which supply many timber merchants. They do a 216mm high Torus profile skirting board in pine.

It is worth noting that the same profile will vary from one batch to the next, I was told by my local timber merchant that this happens when they sharpen the cutters. You may drive yourself mad trying to find an exact copy, when perhaps something close will do, with a bit of sandpaper to help blend the new and the old together.

DT

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I had a load of 5' ogee skirting that was 10mm out on the bottom of the moulding from one piece to the next. The merchant offered to take it back, but fortunately I had lots of runs with doorways in the middle. I cut my first scribes with a piercing saw, and wondered why the hell they didn't meet.

 

[Racers]

This is why you need some moulding planes, you could run that up in a hour quietly!

Pete

 

[bugbear]

This google gave a lot of promising hits;

torus skirting board 220mm

e.g.

http://www.skirtingboardsdirect.com/pro ... 0&offset=0

BugBear

 

[Benchwayze]

This is why you need some moulding planes, you could run that up in a hour quietly!

Pete

+1

 

[Prawn_Cracker]

Thanks all for so much input, its all hugely appreciated. There's a few options there so I'll mull it all over. I may well look into buying a second hand router table, there have been a good few occasions where one would have been useful and my planned build of one still hasn't happened.

I will though keep looking next time I am in the DIY sheds in case something relevant is in but so far I haven't found either the right moulding or the right depth.

Also, appreciate knowing that the price quoted by the joiner is reasonable. I'm not sure what is fair or not for something like this so good to know they were being fair in their pricing.

Bugbear - that link looks very very promising indeed!!

Thanks again

Andy

 

[Prawn_Cracker]

Hi All

Found my match in Jewson in the end. Skirting boards direct never returned my calls or sent me the free samples they offer as part if their service. Really happy to have found something local so thanks again for the tip to keep looking!

Cheers all.

Andy

 

[bugbear]

Found my match in Jewson in the end.

I guess it was fairly standard after all. You'd have been gutted if you'd had a cutter ground!

BugBear

 

[Eric The Viking]

Much as I love my router and table, +1 for getting some run up.

Several reasons:

1. You'll get a better finish from a spindle moulder
2. You'll have spare (if it will go in the attic, get enough for the longest part of any room it's used in and store it - you never know).
3. You won't be cursing yourself if you "cook" it up (we have a profanity trap here!)
4. Related to (3): there's someone to shout at if it's not right.

Planting a bit extra on the bottom to get the full height is the easy way, too. If you want to make it into a router job, groove it along the bottom edge, either for biscuits or a loose tenon (a strip of thin ply is good for this), glue, cramp up nicely and scrape or sand when done - nobody will see the join!