Chasing behind skirting

[SaladFingers]

Does anyone have a cool tip for getting a chase behind a skirting board when sinking socket boxes? In the past I've taken the skirting off, but getting sick of doing that. I did try a long drill, but it's not very tidy and can touch the damp proof course with the angle. I am a spark, but my work is usually bare houses or commercial/industrial.

 

[paul_v]

If you have an sds drill with roto stop you could try one of these, never used one but seen a video on youtube and they look pretty good imo.

http://www.screwfix.com/p/armeg-sds-plus-skirting-board-chisel-20mm/15097

cheers
Paul

 

[Sherbertlion]

16mm metre long bit, pretty much straight down behind skirting.

 

[SaladFingers]

16mm metre long bit, pretty much straight down behind skirting.

It'll always have that angle though, even with my 450mm long drills.

 

[ebee]

1 metre long drill bit, only slight angle, usually does it, I`ve done millions, thousands, hundreds like that - similarly behind ceiling coving too and picture/dado rail .
Usually quite a success (Notice I said usually not always though)

 

[Chri5]

Plastering doesn't run to the floor behind skirting.

Cut chase between socket box and skirt, get a slightly bent lump of 15mm copper tube and tap with a lump hammer, that creates a chase behind the skirt.

The more painful issue tends to be when there's no gap between floor board and void behind the skirt to take cabling in to the sub floor.

I tend to cut a 32mm hole in the skirt near the base, angled towards the floor, then use a 25mm spade drill through the hole and then through the floor board.

 

[SaladFingers]

Plastering doesn't run to the floor behind skirting.

If done properly it does. Skirting should always be fitted to a plastered wall, otherwise you'll have skirting recessed into plaster.

 

[SaladFingers]

1 metre long drill bit, only slight angle, usually does it, I`ve done millions, thousands, hundreds like that - similarly behind ceiling coving too and picture/dado rail .
Usually quite a success (Notice I said usually not always though)

Cheers, I'll get a longer bit and I'll give that a go then.

 

[crystal ball]

A piece of re bar with a bend in it can be useful

 

[cajar]

Plastering doesn't run to the floor behind skirting.

If done properly it does. Skirting should always be fitted to a plastered wall, otherwise you'll have skirting recessed into plaster.

The bottom half is not plastered though.

 

[Chri5]

Plastering doesn't run to the floor behind skirting.

If done properly it does. Skirting should always be fitted to a plastered wall, otherwise you'll have skirting recessed into plaster.

What?

Round here most plastering stop about 50 mm below top of skirt, skirt is nailed to batons which are nailed to the stud work. To qualify 95% of my work is on pre ww2 housing stock. So that means the base 100mm+ of a high skirt is a void.

 

[SaladFingers]

Plastering doesn't run to the floor behind skirting.

If done properly it does. Skirting should always be fitted to a plastered wall, otherwise you'll have skirting recessed into plaster.

What?

Round here most plastering stop about 50 mm below top of skirt, skirt is nailed to batons which are nailed to the stud work. To qualify 95% of my work is on pre ww2 housing stock. So that means the base 100mm+ of a high skirt is a void.

Mine isn't studwork. Sounds like a strange and long winded way to fit skirting.

 

[sparkybird]

Make life easy for yourself and use a 20mm one metre SDS drill bit - much easier to pull a pair of cables up that hole!

The SDS with some encouragement will go through floorboards if these are running parallel with the wall and can't be lifted

As Chri5 said - there is often a nice gap behind most of the skirting anyway

If I can do it, ANYONE can

SB

 

[Chri5]

Mine isn't studwork. Sounds like a strange and long winded way to fit skirting.

Visualise.

Stud wall, plaster a lathe raises the wall thickness 20mm odd. So when they came to fit the skirt to the stud the stud needed padding out via a baton.

Maybe only 10 million or so houses were built like that, obviously not yours

 

[SaladFingers]

Mine isn't studwork. Sounds like a strange and long winded way to fit skirting.

Maybe only 10 million or so houses were built like that, obviously not yours

Stabalise your eyes mate.

Not every house was built with stud walls.

Obviously not mine as mine are all brick (proper walls). Some had cardboard walls added as a modification, others are modern houses.

I don't see how hard you find it to under stand that some houses have real walls.