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Fair play to Robin and the crew ,not only running and working on these sites ,but taking the time to teach people the trade with great enthusiasm and the highest standard of work . It must add hours onto your week ,thanks Darren

Ed is a lucky young man having a teacher as good as Robin. He will be a very good carpenter and he will be able to pass his knowledge on to the next generation of craftsman

I Love It When I See A Tradesman Teach An Apprentice Such High Qaulity Work And Paitence of a Saint

Ed’s got an awesome teacher. He’ll be a fabulous carpenter journeyman.

“Tricks of the trade” and “pride in workmanship”…a great combination!✅

ED is doing very good for a beginner. He has a good teacher. 👍. I fit skirting very similar to this way. Grest video 👌🇮🇪.

I’ve been an apprentice carpenter for just over 2 years now and stumbled across your KZfaq channel through the podcast as I am keen to learn more about my trade. Your channel is so informative and I’ve learned so many tips that have made my life on site much easier and allowed me to take an extra level of pride into my work. Keep up the great content 👍🏻

A good tip which your painter will love you for as well is to run masking tape under the skirting before fitting it. Then when it comes to painting the skirting all your painter has to do afterwards is run a knife carefully down the corner, take the tape off and voila, perfectly painted skirting with no faff. Thanks for the vids robin, think the lad will be overtaking you soon with any luck 🤙

I'm a spread by trade, lovely to watch other trades do their magic, excellent work lads, just get some knee pads! haha

Edd must be a pleasure to teach . And has the best teacher of all time

DIYer here and proud to have taught myself skirts after our new floor went down, earning myself a permanent chop saw in the process. Took a while to get everything perfect - a millimetre gap looks huge so precise measuring and getting used to kerf was key - but it was worth it and incredibly satisfying. Wish I’d had this video at the time though - all these little tips for things like managing kicked-out architraves or non-standard corners that help. Never seen anyone recommend a scribe template for internals though - I cut all mine independently and this would have saved me a lot of time. 😂👍🙏

I go anti clockwise round the room, you only have to scribe the right end of the board. Starrets angle finders good for saving time on awkward angles, mitre glue on externals. Robin gives clear informative instructions and goes the extra mile, i like the biscuit idea, but time consuming. Always good videos on this channel. I've started saying "and all the rest of it" lately haha

Very interesting to see the different techniques you use, and most helpful for the DIY'er. Much appreciated.

Only carpenter in the whole world to biscuit joint skirting to architrave!

Hi Robin and crew. I start my carpentry apprenticeship beginning of September and all your videos have been a great help in this and with my own projects. Thank you 🙏

Great inspiration will be redoing skirtings on next painting redecorating planned maintenance. Thanks for the tips and tricks. KC

Excellent job Robin, you definitely taught Edd the tricks of the trade.

Brilliant as always well done to Edd 👍👍👍

I love how you compliment ed, warms my heart

Excellent chaps! Proper craftsmen at work, I love the fixing methods for a permanent job. Well done Ed, you’re a great tradesman and to you Robin for having the belief in the young lad. Great video as always 👍👍

I was blown away watching how you do the cuts for a perfect fit. It caused me to look at the skirting on my house and saw the difference between your work and how they must have done it when they built my house. I love watching and learning although I am not a builder just love doing things with wood.

That is one lucky apprentice. Respect to Robin taking the time to teach. Bossing it 👍

just stunning

Super work.

Great stuff

A true master carpenter and builder. Thank you Robin.

Many thanks for taking the time to make videos like this Robin. After watching several times just fitted skirting to new loft room. Not quite Robin perfect but better than many tradesmen these day, thanks to your tutorials. Thanks for giving confidence and making a difference :-)

Owner building in Sydney. These fantastic tutorials are so helpful. Things like the biscuits to keep joints flat and using super glue to easily make a difficult joint are incredibly helpful. 🤗 Well done Robin and great to see that Ed has a craftsman as a tutor. 👍

I can't believe I just watched the whole thing for absolutely no reason other than it was so good to watch it being done so well. Everyone doing skirting should watch this video!

Beautiful

Perfect as usual

Really nice seeing edd come along with some great work, really bright future for you mate 👍🏻. As always he's got the best in the business teaching him well done robin 👍🏻

Top class tradesmen. Great work. Not many like you about.

Another great piece of work and top marks for sharing your skills with Ed. It must be a great pleasure to see a young'un 'getting it' and producing such quality work. I've used AC50, acrylic adhesive, for mounting MDF skirting and I'd say it's a great product. On the only occasion I've had to remove a piece I used a sharpened hacksaw blade and just cut the adhesive as I gently pulled on the skirting.

Fascinating

That was brilliant. I learned so much. Thank you.

Great video Robin !!! thanks

Wow, I’m seriously impressed , and realise I need to slow down and aim for this level of work. Thanks for the reminder.

Pure gold for an apprentice who Mainly does first fix, keep them coming please and liking the new channel! 🙌

Loved it

Really enjoy you channel and your a great teacher passing on your knowledge

A pleasure watching a skilled person work 👍👍

Very fascinating! True professionals👍

Not a gap in sight. Great job lads

Mate I have work with numerous trades but got to say you are next level tradesmen and love watching your vids you have given me so many tips love it keep the vids coming respect 💪

Another masterclass 👌

Pleasure to watch things being done properly. Good on you

Beautiful work. Well done guys. I learend lots from this video.

Absolute class

Great video!

Nice !

Great vid as always

You have a great teaching style. I really enjoyed watching this video and I thought it was a refreshing take on tutorial videos that you actually showed someone on site how to do it. I felt I stood alongside him as your apprentice. It's rarely been done and a great idea. Also, really enjoyed the praise you handed out and your general positive and detail oriented style. Hope you will make many more such videos. Thanks.

Your lads doing well, excellent skirting.

A note for big Ed, I've run MDF skirting tight to aluminium doors before and found that in the winter you get a bit of condensation forming on the aluminium frame and it wicks up the skirting and can swell & stain it. I tend to leave a 3mm or so gap now and keep my 🤞

No wonder that guy got his first go a skirting done bang on what an amazing way of teaching you have really surprised you don’t have more followers great work guys keep it liked and subscribed

Great video

Always knock the snots off! Great stuff.

The first part for only needing to cut one mitre piece is incredible 👌😁 such time saver

Quality as always Robin and Ed. Reminds me of my apprenticeship. My boss was a stickler for great detail too. Keep the content coming great too watch. Cheers

Only Robin could drag out a video for 30 minutes on fitting skirting boards

Awesome stuff, a really lucky, privileged lad to have such craftsman, perfectionist as a tutor 👌

Excellent work Sir🥃🥃

I also use the same place to get my skirtings and arch’s. I like to personally buy a thicker architrave. Firstly because I like the look but secondly to to offset the plastering/lining issues. Great job as always guys. Very impressed with the big chap. Pretty sure my skirting didn’t look like that at first.

That was really helfpul thanks. Very skilled indeed

Wish this had been out a couple of years ago. Had to do my own when joiner took COVID rules to heart and wouldn't come in. First issue was architraves, my batch purchase of standard MDF ones were too narrow for the fire door frames. So now got two sizes ... Struggled with profiling using coping saw; your technique is better, quicker and easier. I have since removed some sections, for better furniture fit. Used only foam to fix, so can be removed with a bread knife. Just one (old) wall with bowing needed pins too. Amateur but I'm the client, so can accept my own imperfections. I know it's not a DIY guide, but still learnt a lot. Thanks.

Superb video and thorough demonstration! It's been difficult here where I am in the States to find younger people to get into these trades. Wonderful how you give back to those that want to learn there where you live and all of us fans here on your wonderful channel. Hope this week is a glorious one for all of you and thanks again Robin!

Most of the walls I work on tend to be utterly devoid of anything like this so your (rather fantastic) tutorial goes out the window; getting the walls straight, level, plumb, flat would be another job in itself. After years of ‘winging it’ I’ve got my own methods to get them looking pretty decent and pretty fast. I don’t know if you could teach it pretty easy to be honest. You learn cause you have to.

Love mouldings going on. Make a site look finished. I cut my scribes when I'm rough cuttings to make life easier.

That’s old school that!! Nice work mate. I measure the whole house and cut all my scribes and mitres at the saw and then take it up and fit it, I’ll never go back!!!

Great vid!! Thanks

Nice idea on the biscuits, never seen that before a bit ott but looks like you get the big bucks

High levels of workmanship.

Great vid! I've been watching for a while and this is my fave 😀

As a new diy-er that tutorial was as easy to understand as is possible, your apprentices are very fortunate to have such attention to detail training, your a credit to your trade Robin👍

Used to scribe like that. Now use angle grinder like a FinishCarpentry video - don't have my own dead square walls and floors so have to work with the historical unevenness

Nice to see a tradesman taking pride in his work and striving for perfection rather than the ‘that will do’ approach

damn Robin, I learn something new every time. we want to redecorate the living room in about 4 weeks and we can copy your technique. what I have learned over the last few years is amazing, thank you from the bottom of my heart. please continue because i want to learn more. i practice as long as i can and then i get to work and enjoy my work. Thank you Robin.👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Much appreciated good man 👌

Your the best of the best in carpentry very skilled master .

Tradition = Scribe internal corners, mitre external corners. Then you go to some of the new build houses and see square edge skirtings with butt joints, which is absolutely outrageous and indefensible even on grounds of keeping costs to a minimum. Nice to see Ed learning to put small corners in as one and scribing up to it to help keep it tight into the corner, Great work Ed, must have a good teacher !!

Ah yes sir, the belcast that the spreads tend to leave at skirting level. Very informative video as ever.👍👍👍👍👍

Love this guide. Biscuit joints to square things flush is a great idea especially if you working on your own and faces will always have the same datum. One template to do all of the scribes. Cutting down repeated measurements. Maximum quality, maximum profit.

Holy moly. I’ve installed thousands of feet of trim and learned by way of mistake and inefficient bumbling, refusing inaccuracy or clumsy execution, slowly gathering strategies to get it done faster. Glad to see I arrived at some similar techniques but maaaan would this video have been useful to see 6 years ago!! And there were still many nuggets in there!! My faves: - trim router as biscuit machine - ca glue for baseboards as well (not just door frame miters) - this is massive: only mitre and cope once! Then trace the rest (I mitred and coped em all… 🙈 - using a fixed-known-size-easy-to-calculate-measurement-and-fit-test-block (needs better name😂) to suss out the joins instead of starting each one as a new solve (though I was working in very old very wobbly places where plumb is a fruit and square is a person you don’t want to hang around too long 😅…) All told I think these tips would cut my working time in half, maybe more. Damn fine video!

Very nice job

Just got a load of primed skirting and architrave delivered from skirting world; excellent finish and very good prices. A great recommendation from Robin!

I glue only on Good walls and screws on wavy walls. I thought the laser measure was going to make a debut. You can remove and only small damage to plaster. For me a angle finder is a must have tool now. Great educational vid.👍

I usually do all my external mitres first, as they are the most difficult to get right, especially if the plaster is lumpy & bumpy & not true. If you end-up being a tiny bit short, it doesn't matter, as the internal mitre scribes hide any gaps. 🙂👍

This is 💯!! Sadly this is only how a very small percentage of carpenters conduct their work. The attention to detail here is fantastic. Decorating over your work would be a pleasure guys. Keep up the amazing work and superb videos. 🙌🏻

Being this man's apprentice would've been an honour

Lining on paper on the floor. Nice trick. Obvious once you see it done! If the opportunity presents itself, I’d like to see how you treat a three-piece bullnose corner. Lots of those in mid-century modern around here. (Your hand-saw technique is a joy to watch.)

Good video

This is the type of firm I’d like to work for, beautiful workmanship, clean and tidy, pride in the job at hand and working at the correct pace to achieve all of the above! They’re using great tools too! Working in Derbyshire? Hit me up

If you need to scribe the skirting, always work to the door. That way the shadow, (gap) will not face you as you enter the room.

It’s great to see you use hand tools 👍

Robin, the decorator's always got enough caulk !

Really enjoyable to watch people who evidently care about quality work. Thank you gents! Quick question: for making small wooden boxes, picture frames, and doing the 11" and 9" skirtings here, I've used masking tape to hold the tips of the mitre together then 'folding-closed', to ensure the mitre pulls tight and straight. It's a 1910s house, where I usually have to scribe the bottom of the skirting to the floor! I realise at the 'big build' there's no wall out of plumb, nor floor that isn't billiard-table flat ;-) , but do you ever feel the need when doing skirtings?

When people put skirting on top of wood flooring, ie laminate etc, I wish more people would put a half a mm packer/shim under the skirting to raise it off the floor by half a mm. The reason for this is... when you come to paint the room in future, Its so easy to slide some lining paper, or any paper under the skirting, which makes painting it much easier and quicker, without the need to tape anything off. Makes the painting job in future very easy. especially if your painting it more than once using undercoat and top coat. But i see so many people just sit it directly on the floor, It wouldnt add any time to the fitting of the skirting. But it would greatly help anyone painting it just to leave a minute gap under the skirting.

Great work right there. Shame everyone doesn’t have the same style 👍