The quality of the ceiling finish greatly affects appearance premises. Therefore, they try to make everything perfect, or very close to it. The finishing touch in the design is the ceiling plinth. They give the finish a finished and holistic look. The strips themselves are mounted on flat surfaces simply: with a special white glue, but there are problems with the design of the corners. Without knowing how to make the corner of the ceiling plinth correctly, a lot of material deteriorates. We will tell you about how and with what to cut it in the corners.

What is it made of and what is it called

The very first skirting boards on the ceiling were made of gypsum. They were cast in special molds, then they were installed on the ceiling on the mortar. Such curly ornaments were called fillets. Today you can see them infrequently: they are expensive, and outwardly they are almost no different from cheaper options. And the name is almost lost.

The most popular today are ceiling plinths made of polyurethane or polystyrene. They are inexpensive, look great, are easy to install, and have a wide range of profiles and patterns. The width can be from 5 mm to 250 mm. They are used in almost any room, decorated in any style. An exception - wooden houses with matching interior. Most often used here wooden crafts— style dictates its conditions.

Part of the assortment in a specialist shop

There is also a similar finish made of plastic. It is mainly installed in bathrooms. But even in damp rooms, you can safely mount polyurethane strips - they are not afraid of dampness.

Cut the ceiling plinth in the corners of any material using one of the methods described below. The only exception is plastic skirting boards: you can make such an angle only using ready-made corners.

What and how to cut

Working with skirting boards different material involves the use of different cutting tools. When working with a ceiling plinth made of wood, it is more convenient to work with a wood saw. All the rest, including plastic, foam and other polymers, are better cut with a metal blade. It turns out a more even cut, less burr. Saws are usually used when working with a miter box.

Properly shaped corners look attractive

When working with foam skirting boards without special tools, they are cut with a good clerical knife. Its blade is quite thin and even, the cut is smooth, not jammed. If you work with polyurethane or polystyrene with a saw, do not press hard: you can wrinkle.

In general, in order to get used to the tool and material a little, take some piece and practice on it: cut, saw, cut. So at work there will be less problems.

You can read about the design of the ceiling in this article.

How to get the right angle

Most of the problems when working with ceiling plinths arise when making corners. Since the surface of the products is complex, simply cutting at the right angle will not work: you also need to cut them so that they fit together and preferably without large gaps. In fact, there are several ways to make the corner of the ceiling plinth perfect (or almost).

Using a chair

If the corners and walls in the room are even, you can use a special carpentry tool - a miter box. This is an inverted U-shaped chute with lines for 90° and 45° cuts. The part in which you want to make a wash is laid inside, a saw is inserted into the guides. The part is held in place, cut at the required angle.

This is what the chair looks like. Can be plastic, wood or metal

In the case of skirting boards, everything is not so simple: they must simultaneously adhere to two surfaces, therefore they must be pressed against one or another wall of the miter box. When working with ceiling, they are pressed against the side closest to you.

The sequence of actions when finishing the outer corner you need to make washed down at an angle of 45 degrees. Put the chair in front of you. Try on how the plinth will be located, determining which part of it will be attached to the ceiling. In order not to get confused and cut the ceiling plinth correctly, lay the plank that will be located on the right on the right, the one on the left - on the left.

How to cut a corner ceiling plinth: correctly install it in the miter box

With the part that is on the ceiling, press it to the bottom of the miter box. The other side is closer to you and raised. You lean it on the wall of the fixture so that it does not stagger when cutting. That is, the front part of the plinth is turned away from you. Make the cut direction as shown in the photo below. Putting the two cut parts together, you get a protruding - outer or outer corner.

How to make an outer corner of a ceiling plinth using a chair

The sawn off parts are first applied to the place “dry”, without applying glue. If the geometry of the corner turned out to be not so ideal, you can tweak it a little with a knife. Small errors are easier to cover with a special putty.

With the inner corner of the ceiling plinth, the situation is very similar. First, try on which side will be on the ceiling, press this part to the bottom of the miter box, rest the second part on the wall closest to you and make cuts as shown in the photo below.

How to make the inside corner of a ceiling plinth using a miter box

And again, first try on without applying glue, if necessary, slightly adjust. Then apply a thin bead of adhesive to both surfaces that will be attached to the wall or ceiling.

Your version of how to properly use the miter box is shown in the video.

How to make a corner of a ceiling plinth without a miter box

Few people in apartments or houses have exactly 90 ° angles. Small deviations are easily corrected after fitting. But not always. Then you have to mark everything "in place" - under the ceiling.

You will need a finely defined pencil (hard - it is not so visible on the ceiling, but leaves fairly clear marks close up), a small piece of plinth, a ruler and a good stationery knife if you work with polyurethane (polystyrene) baguettes or a metal saw to work with the rest of the materials.

Apply the plinth to the corner, draw along the outer edge with a pencil. Apply to the other side of the corner, also note. You have a cross on the ceiling, the center of which marks the place where the strips of the ceiling plinth should meet (see photo). Having installed a segment of the plinth in the corner, which will be glued there and resting it with its end against the wall, transfer the mark to it.

How to make corners on ceiling plinths without using special tools

Now take a ruler and connect the edge of the plinth with the marked mark. If you just put the plinth on the table and cut along the line, the two parts in the corner will still not add up: it will interfere inner part. It can be trimmed later, trying on the ceiling. The second way is to set the piece to be cut on the table with the piece that will be on the ceiling. And cut along the line, but holding the knife at an angle of about 45 °. You will still need to correct, but much less (and less likely to make a mistake).

Repeat the same operation with the second bar. You put it against the desired wall, rest the end against the adjoining wall, mark the place where the cross is drawn, draw a line and then cut it off. Correction is carried out "dry" without applying glue.

You repeat exactly the same actions for the outer (protruding) corner. Now you know another way to make a corner of a ceiling plinth, and without a string or other special devices.

How to install sliding interior doors you can read here.

With decorative corners

There is another, the easiest way. For skirting boards made of polyurethane or polystyrene, use ready-made, factory decorative corners. They are installed in a corner, the strips are glued closely to them. Cutting them if necessary is very simple: a few millimeters with an ordinary clerical knife.

Examples of finished corners for fillets

How to join in corners

If the installation of the first corner is completed, we can assume that you have already learned to do almost everything. “Almost” because you still need to learn how to connect the corners and cut the planks to length. When some part is already glued and there is a small distance to the corner, how can one not make a mistake with the length? The answer is simple: leave a margin.

At first, you can cut off a piece 10-15 cm longer: there will be an opportunity to redo it several times if something does not work out right away. Then you make a corner in the way described above, try it on dry, adjust everything so that the result suits you. Only after that you can put the already cut bar into the corner and mark the place to which it can be shortened. You need to cut exactly at 90 °. It is not necessary to use a stool. Just try to put the knife (hacksaw) perpendicular to the surface.

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How to cut a corner on an indoor and outdoor ceiling plinth using a miter box

Have you decided to install a ceiling plinth (fillet, molding)? Do you want to hide the joints and get a finished look? While doing the work, you may encounter a lot of nuances. To avoid difficulties, you should figure out how to cut a ceiling plinth in the corners of internal and external, what is a miter box and how to make it. This is what we'll do.

Instruments

When installing fillets, the question invariably arises of how to properly cut the slope of these decorative elements. To solve this problem, certain tools are used to do everything right:

• tape measure and pencil;
• hacksaw;
• ordinary or clerical;
• miter box.

The miter box is a popular, easy-to-use carpentry tool that allows you to cut the skirting board at the desired angle. This device is made of metal, wood, plastic. On the side walls, the device has vertical cutting slots made at an angle of 45, 60, 90 degrees.

Professional models are devices with swivel mechanism, which allows you to fix the file relative to the workpiece at almost any angle. Thus, the question of how to cut the ceiling plinth at an angle is greatly facilitated.

Trim the corners

At what angle to cut the ceiling plinth , depends on its location - it is external or internal.

Internal slope

Gouging an inside corner is done step by step in a certain order:

1. First you need to measure the desired length of the plinth on the ceiling.

1. Install the workpiece bar inside the miter box as it will be located on the ceiling.

For proper work, it is necessary to place the skirting board with the right side up.

1. Press the workpiece against the far wall of the tool, holding it with your left hand.
2. The next step is to set the file at a 45 degree angle so that its handle is as close as possible to the left hand. The plinth should be cut without strong pressure on the saw.

1. Next, you need to cut the reciprocal bar. To do this, the workpiece is installed against the far wall.
2. We hold her right hand.
3. We turn the hacksaw at an angle of 45 degrees. In this case, the handle should be turned to the right. After that, you can cut off the plinth.

1. At the end of trimming, the inner corner of the ceiling plinth is checked by joining the planks.

Following this algorithm, you can do the job with millimeter accuracy. And the question of how to trim the inner corner will already be closed.

External slope

It is better to proceed to cutting the outer corner only after the inner one, because otherwise the molding may not be long enough.

To decide how to cut outer corner, it is necessary to act in a strictly defined way:

1. The first step, as in the case of the inner corner, is marking on the ceiling and applying the necessary marks to it with a pencil.
2. At the second stage, the plinth blank should be installed close to the near wall of the miter box.

1. Holding the bar with your left hand, turn the handle 45 degrees to the left with a hacksaw and cut off the baseboard.
2. To saw off the striker, you need to position it closer to the front wall of the fixture, holding it with your right hand. Saw off the skirting board at a 45 degree angle by turning the handle to the right.

1. After that, the cut pieces are joined together and, if necessary, the surfaces are trimmed, forming an external corner.

We make a miter box on our own

Sample

The template can be made using cardboard, wood or paper. The necessary markings are applied to these materials in the following form:

• first, two clear lines are applied in parallel;
• between these lines, a central point is determined and marked on paper;
• with the help of a protractor, the necessary angles are drawn, which can be more than 90 degrees.

It is important to consider the angle between walls and between walls and ceiling before using the template.

miter box

The manufacture of this tool can be done in different ways:

1. Of the three wooden planks or slats mounted U-shaped boxes. On its walls, grooves are marked and cut out at the desired slopes.
2. Two boards are knocked together strictly in perpendicular planes. A pattern is applied to the paper in the form of lines with inclinations of 45 degrees for cutting. The workpiece is applied to the corner, pressed against it by hand, as in the case of using a miter box, and the paper template is located on the opposite side. Cutting the fillet is carried out with orientation to the lines drawn on paper. When cutting a ceiling plinth, you can use anything that forms a right angle.

Other Ways to Trim Corners

It is most rational to use the miter box when the adjoining walls are strictly perpendicular planes. In other cases, these tasks can be solved by marking the plinth on the ceiling. This method allows you to take into account all deviations in the size of the angle, as well as uneven walls.

It is important to carry out the work in a certain order:

1. First, two blanks are cut along a straight vertical line.
2. At the next stage, it is necessary to attach one bar, resting it against a perpendicular wall with its end, and then do the same operations with the second bar.
3. Draw a line on the ceiling with a pencil.

1. The intersection point of the drawn contours will mean the mark along which the plinth is cut, forming corner in ceiling molding.
2. Then you should reattach each plank in turn and mark on them a cut line connecting its two edges.
3. The plinth is cut along the marked lines, after which its two parts must be joined and attached to the installation site.

With this method, it is important to consider two points: 1) it is more suitable for internal corners; 2) it is impossible to fix the fillets one by one without first joining and trying on their relative position. The remaining gaps between the two planks can be puttied.

Types of fillets

After we figured out the basic principles of corner trimming, I want to mention that fillets can be made from different materials:

• polyurethane;
• polyvinyl chloride;
• polystyrene (polystyrene);
• tree.

And so that you have an idea about each of them, and can choose the right part, I will briefly describe their characteristics:

• Polyurethane stucco is distinguished by its quality, strength, elasticity and resistance to moisture. Their main disadvantage is poor resistance to sudden temperature changes. Therefore, in rooms with high humidity, I would not recommend installing such parts.

• Skirting boards made of polyvinyl chloride are distinguished by a favorable price. However, the material is capable of accumulating static electricity.

• Polystyrene fillets are resistant to moisture, have good quality and attractive appearance. However, under mechanical stress, they can break.

• Wooden skirting boards are natural materials, but their disadvantage is exposure to moisture, high temperatures, and relatively large weight.

Also fillets differ in their length, width, shape, relief. Most often they are glued to the ceiling joints to hide them. You need to choose a molding based on the type of wall and ceiling, the size of the room.

Now you know how to make a miter box yourself and how to make a clear corner on the ceiling plinth. By following the rules I have described, you can easily solve this problem. If you have any questions - ask them in the comments. A visual algorithm of actions will demonstrate the video in this article.

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It is known that in order to obtain an ideal articulation of two corner blanks of a ceiling plinth, it is necessary to correctly draw up a cut line for each of them. In this article, you can learn how to properly cut a ceiling plinth, as well as get acquainted with the tools that are needed for this.

Skirting board cutting methods

There are the following ways of cutting the ceiling plinth:

• Cutting using a miter box.
• Cutting using a special stencil.
• Cutting by applying a pencil markup.

A miter box is a special device with which you can form an arbitrary angle from those that are in its set of cuts.

When working with this device, the plinth must be inserted into it in exactly the same way as it will be located on the ceiling. Holding the upper part of the workpiece, its lower edge must be pressed against the wall of the fixture and cut according to the shape you have chosen.

To prepare plastic baseboards, you can use a regular hacksaw. But when applying it, you should not make significant efforts, as this can lead to the formation of chips.

Preparation of joints with an arbitrary angle

Since the walls in the rooms do not always adjoin one another at 90 degrees, it is worth familiarizing yourself with the technique of preparing an arbitrary cut angle.

This technique is usually implemented in the following two ways:

1. Using a cardboard stencil, the halves of which are obtained by cutting it at the angle you need. Using such a stencil as a template, according to which cuts of plinth blanks are formed, you can get the perfect corner joint.
2. The second method involves preparing the cutting site using pencil markings and is as follows:

Pay special attention to the fact that with this method of marking, maximum accuracy must be observed. The quality of the resulting joint will completely depend on how accurately you carry out this procedure (and, of course, on how accurately you cut the cut on the workpieces).

In the same sequence, the cutting lines for the outer corner are prepared. But at the same time, there is no need to transfer the point of intersection of the marking lines to the plinth, since in this situation it is the upper point of junction of the corner parts of the blanks. IN this case you have to move the junction point to the wall.

The final stage of work

Upon completion of operations for the design of joints, a control check of the fit of the workpieces on the cut should be carried out.

In the event that there are gaps in the joint, you will have to fine-tune it by slightly trimming the baseboard or sanding the cuts with sandpaper.

And in conclusion, we will acquaint you with how to properly cut the ceiling plinth more accurately. Fitting the joining line of adjacent sections of the plinth should be done even before you start marking and trimming its length. With the reverse order of operations (first - the length, and then - the angle) and if you fail to design the joint, you risk completely ruining the workpiece.

Video

For more information on the technique of cutting a ceiling plinth for corners, see the following video:

- this is the shortest, and, it would seem, the simplest stage of repair. But surely many of you had to spend at least an hour trying to cut out these 45 degrees. The only exceptions are the lucky ones with a technical mindset and those who were friends with geometry at school.

Today we will tell you how to cut the corner of the ceiling plinth and floor plinth without resorting to complex calculations. You will see that this is not at all a difficult job that can be done in a short time.

How to properly cut a ceiling plinth at an angle of 45 °

Corner elements for the ceiling plinth are easily trimmed on the miter box and manually. In the first case, you will need a miter box and a hacksaw, and in the second, a pencil and a hacksaw / knife on cardboard. The hacksaw blade should be well sharpened so that you do not have to think about how to cover up the chips and roughness on the cut.

Cutting a corner with a miter box

We take polyurethane ceiling plinthdesigned for the left or right side of the corner. We lean it against the future installation site so that the opposite end of the segment from the corner to the edge of the already glued molding. In the place where the lower edge of the ceiling plinth is in contact with the top of the corner of the wall, put a dot with a pencil or stick a piece of insulating tape. We repeat these steps with the second segment.

How to cut the corner of the ceiling plinth, external:

• We place the left blank in the miter box from left to right, pressing it to the edge closest to us. The corner vertex mark must align with the leftmost slot in the same edge
• We place the right blank from right to left, pressing it to the near edge. Corner vertex mark - to the rightmost slot.

How to saw down a ceiling plinth on an internal corner? Everything is very simple, the actions will be exactly the same, only the location of the corner vertex mark changes. Here it is the other way around: for the left segment - the rightmost slot, and for the right one - the leftmost one. Finished ceiling fillets must be combined, and then look at the joints in the light - there should be no gaps. If they are very small, then editing is not needed, you can do with sealing with putty material after installation.

How to make the corner of the ceiling plinth: the location of the workpiece in the miter box

Important: sometimes the corners deviate too much from the standard 45 degrees, and a simple miter box for the ceiling plinth becomes useless - you can cut off the excess. The way out will be the purchase of a rotary tool, but it is not cheap and this acquisition "once" will be irrational. In this case, you can get by with the method of intersecting points.

How to cut the corners of a ceiling plinth without a miter box

If you are thinking about how to properly file a ceiling plinth without a miter box, then the following information will be useful to you. We take the right segment of the foam ceiling plinth, apply it to the installation site and draw a line on the ceiling along its upper edge. It should go beyond the points of the vertices of the corners by about 5 cm. We do the same with the left segment and put points at the intersections of the lines. We alternately put the ceiling plinths in place and transfer the resulting marks to them.

We figured out the upper part of the ceiling moldings, now we move on to the bottom. Everything is simple here, the marks we need are the tops of the corners. We mark their location with dots on the lower edges of the left and right ceiling plinth. Next, you need to connect the dots on the moldings - this will be the trim line. This method will help to cope with even the most crooked corners. Fitting will most likely not be needed, and if it does, it will be minimal.

How to cut a ceiling plinth without a special tool: the photo shows marks for the intersecting points method

Important: the work described here requires the marking of surfaces. Therefore, you first need to start cutting and fitting the ceiling plinth, and only then think about how to glue the wallpaper. Or, if you want to fix the skirting board and on top of the wallpaper, we do marking and trimming before finishing, and gluing after it.

We cut the inner and outer corners of the floor skirting boards

It is no more difficult to trim floor moldings evenly than ceiling moldings. Only the cutting tool is selected according to the material that we will cut. The works themselves will also be similar, only for manual cutting, a slightly different marking method is presented here.

Cutting a wooden floor molding with a miter box

It is necessary to measure the distance from the edge of the plinth already glued to the wall to the top of the corner of the wall. Now we take a new segment of the molding and set aside a length equal to this distance on its lower edge. We put a point with a pencil or stick a piece of electrical tape. We do this procedure for both external and internal corners. In the miter box, we place the plinth segments from left to right for the left side of the corner and from right to left for the right. At the same time, they should be pressed as in the figure - to the side of the miter box closest to you.

How to cut the corner of the ceiling plinth - laying the workpiece in the miter box:

• For the outer left, we compare the mark on the plinth with the leftmost slot. For the outer right - from the extreme right.
• For the inner left, we compare the mark on the plinth with the rightmost slot. For the inner right - from the extreme left.

Clarification: slot means the one that is on the side that is closer to you.

Cutting the plinth at an angle: the red line marks the place of cut

Floor plinth: internal and external corner "by hand"

Floor moldings are usually quite wide and thick, and therefore, finding only two points here, as for ceiling moldings, is indispensable. To trim the inner corner, first set a point at its top at a height equal to the width of the plinth - in the figure this is a green dot. From it to the left and right we set aside a distance equal to the thickness of the plinth - points 1 and 2.

We apply the left segment to the wall, and from point 1 we draw a line along it, perpendicular to the wall and put a point on the edge. We repeat the action with the right segment, only draw from point 2. In the figure, the point is marked with the number three. From it across the plinth we draw a line to its opposite edge - we get point 4. Now we connect the green dot with points 3 and 4 - we get a line and an angle along which it will be possible to cut the molding.

How to cut a plinth: the necessary notes are made in the corners

Important: Trimming outside corners is easier than inside. On the left and right segments, we set the points: A - mark the top of the corner of the wall; C - the point of intersection of the lines, which is obtained by alternately drawing the left and right segments of the plinth along the floor; B - from point C across the molding, a line is drawn to its opposite edge.

By connecting these points together with one line, we get a line along which the cut will be made.

Choosing a corner tool

The most economical option is to buy a simple plastic miter box. It is a plastic block with eight working slots. Such a device is designed for only two operations: trimming at 45, 90 and 22.5 degrees. An angle of 90 degrees is useful, for example, if you need to insert a socket into the middle of the molding.

Some fixtures come with eccentric locks included. They are preferable, since it is easier to work with - the plinth is clamped in the desired position and does not move during the cutting process. Accordingly, flaws, if they happen, are minimal and it will not be difficult to adjust the angle.

How to cut a plastic baseboard: a simple plastic miter box

If you have to repair in your own house, then it may make sense to purchase a more serious tool - a rotary single-plane miter box. It is designed for cutting at an angle of 15, 22.5, 30, 36, 45 and 90 degrees. The design of such a miter box includes 2 clamps - for clamping in the horizontal and vertical planes, as well as a limiter that will allow you to cut the workpieces to one length. The hacksaw here will be built-in. If it is not clear how to cut a ceiling plinth, the video review below will help you.

How to cut a plinth in a corner: miter box

How to cut a ceiling plinth: video contains detailed description miter box, and information on how to use this tool.

This will help you at work.

As you noticed, the text mentioned labels with duct tape. This is the most convenient way to mark blanks, since the pencil is not always visible on the floor plinth, and it is sometimes difficult to remove its lines from the ceiling. The bright pieces of electrical tape are very clearly visible, and when they are no longer needed, they are removed with just one movement of the hand. There are no traces of glue after removing such marks.

Sometimes you have to trim moldings with a very large pattern. How to connect the corners so that they turn out beautiful:

• From one long fillet, we cut pieces according to the number of corners, each of which should contain an element of the pattern. On both sides of the pattern, 5 cm of the plinth length should remain.
• We measure the resulting blanks and find their middle, cut along the center line.
• We make corner trimming as usual, but taking into account the fact that the middle of the drawings on the blanks should fall on the tops of the corners.

How to join the corners of the ceiling plinth, if there is a large pattern on its surface

The repair of the ceiling is completed with the design using ceiling plinths. Their pruning is not a daunting task, but requires some skill and accuracy. We will tell you how you can cut ceiling baguettes using a special tool - a miter box. Since it is not available in all homes, we will also consider an alternative option in which you can do without it.

And now - about everything in order.

What tools will be needed?

• Miter box - this aluminum, plastic or wooden professional carpentry tool has the form of a groove in the shape of an inverted P. With its help, the material can be sawn at the required angle. Usually it is fixed on a table or workbench. It is safe and convenient to operate;
• Electric miter saw that replaces the miter box. Provides high precision cuts;
• An electric jigsaw with which you can;
• A sharp and well-sharpened knife for processing foam baseboards;
• Saw for manipulating wooden baguettes or canvas - when working with everything else, including foam and plastic.

Miter box for cutting skirting boards

Cutting with a miter box

The use of a miter box is justified when the room has relatively even corners and walls. For the correct cutting of the angle, the part in which it is supposed to be washed down is placed in the miter box, and the saw is inserted into the tool guides. Remaining motionless, the part allows you to "cut yourself off" at the required angle.

For a fillet to be effective, it must be in tight contact with both surfaces at the same time. This is possible if it is tightly pressed against the wall of the tool by a section closer to the working one.

Suppose you want to cut a 45 degree angle. First of all, the baguette should be correctly positioned in the miter box.

Cutting sequence:

• Having determined the direction in which the cut will be made, we cut off the corner;
• We add together the cut sections, we get two corners: external and internal;
• Having attached the miter box to the ceiling, we check how even the cuts are. If necessary, something can be corrected with a knife or use the services of putty.

Cutting without a miter box

Often it simply does not make sense to purchase this tool for a professional for one repair. You can completely do without a miter box, with the help of a pencil, a sharp sharpened knife and a good eye. How? There are several ways here.

Method one: prepare something similar. To do this, you need to put together a tray using three planks, then make a cut at an angle of 45 degrees, and to facilitate further actions, make markings using a school protractor or a square.

DIY miter box

Method two: a paper or cardboard template is cut out, on which an orientation line is drawn. In this case, when nailing planks at an angle of ninety degrees, they will need not three, but two! How are corners trimmed? We put the baguette into the analogue of the tray prepared by us in such a way that its position corresponds to that with which the plinth will be fixed to the ceiling, then we expose the tray along the edge of our standard. Next, you should cut the baguette along the line drawn on the standard, holding the cutting tool in a vertical position.

Another method using an arbitrary tray. It can be imitated even by a table pushed close to the wall, or at least the corner separating the wall and the flooring.

Corner cutting:

• We mark the expected angles on the ceiling and wall, as well as on the fillet itself, focusing on an imaginary line that cuts both parts of the baguette;
• We install the plinth in the tray in the same way as it will be further fixed to the ceiling, and cut it with a knife or cloth held in a strictly vertical position.

How to cut without tools?

In this case it is necessary:

• Make the necessary marks on the baguettes;
• Connect the edges of the baguettes with the marks using an ordinary ruler. In the future, trimming can be done, already making measurements at the top;
• Having laid on the table the segment intended for trimming, with the area that will join the ceiling, we cut it at a 45 degree angle. The need to correct will in this case be much less;
• The above steps are repeated for the outer corner.

You noticed that we did not need any special tools: we just need to tune in to the fact that there may be a need for adjustment.

How to make the correct docking?

If after gluing part of the baguette there is some distance left to the corner, you need to think about how not to make a mistake - a small margin will not hurt. At first, it is better to cut off a piece with a good margin of about 10-15 cm. Then, cutting off the corner by any convenient method, try it on on a dry surface. To do this, attach a bar to the ceiling and mark the point where the shortening boundary will pass. We cut at right angles.

Equally important is the competent docking of corners. Finished skirting boards are usually fixed at an angle slightly less than 45 degrees, so there may be inconsistencies in the cut edges and gaps. Here, the initial trimming of the corners is followed by a dry, as precise as possible docking of the skirting boards already on the ceiling itself. Problems usually arise when using wooden and plastic materials.

At the end of the rough joints of the fillets, either screw them on, and then, if necessary, use the help of putty and then seal all existing seams.