Adding Skirting To The Workshop, Part 1

Earlier than I present you the method and progress, let me first remind you what the workshop appears like after the primary two initiatives — constructing the shutters and portray the entrance door.

My constructing is constructed on 4 thick wooden skids, so the plan was simply to nail the skirting proper to these skids slightly below the siding.

However I didn’t need the skirting to go behind the steps to the entrance door, which can be my subsequent undertaking. So earlier than measuring and attaching any skirting, I needed to mark off the width of the steps. I made a decision to make my steps lengthen 16 inches from the trim on the door on both sides.

After which I measured from the nook of the skid to the mark I simply make. That width on my constructing was 122 inches.

I didn’t wish to put the skirting boards proper up towards the siding. I believed I wanted some form of transition board first. So I reduce lengths of 1″ x 2″ PVC boards, mitered them for the corners of the constructing, and connected them flat (i.e., face up) simply beneath the siding.

Earlier than I connected that, I needed to reduce away about 1/4-inch from the underside of one of many nook trim items on the constructing as a result of it was too low and in the best way of the place that transition piece wanted to be connected. I used my Dremel Multi-Max for that.

As soon as that extra was reduce away, the transition board match completely beneath the siding all the best way to the nook.

I used 2.5-inch 16-gauge nails for this.

Then I used to be prepared to connect the skirting boards. I needed these boards to run horizontally, and it took two boards to fill in that 12-inch top between the bottom and the siding. So I made a decision to connect the boards collectively utilizing PVC glue and pocket screws, after which connect them at one piece to the constructing. So I marked and drilled all the pocket holes, protecting them to about 12 inches aside.

And the I used a liberal quantity of PVC glue on the sides of each boards.

After which I screwed them collectively utilizing the pocket holes and Kreg 1.25-inch exterior screws.

Once I obtained the boards over to the constructing, I noticed that there wasn’t fairly sufficient room on the correct finish for the boards to suit into the skirting space. However I didn’t wish to reduce the boards.

So as an alternative, I dug out a trench for the boards to suit.

And right here’s what it regarded like when it was connected.

Right here’s what the workshop regarded like with each side connected on the entrance of the constructing.

I made a decision to do the again of the constructing subsequent as a result of I knew this one was going to be the most important problem, and I needed to get it over with. This facet is an uninterrupted 27-foot run of skirting. So I began by attaching the transition piece.

The longest PVC 1″ x 2″ boards solely are available in 12-foot lengths, so I needed to have two joints on this facet. I reduce the tip of the primary board at a 45-degree angle…

After which reduce the subsequent board at that very same angle…

That helps to disguise the joint far more than if the boards had straight cuts.

Subsequent up was the skirting. This was essentially the most difficult a part of the day as a result of I needed to pre-assemble a 27-foot run of skirting. I made a decision to stagger the boards, just like how you put in hardwood flooring, in order that I didn’t have joints within the prime row lining up with joints within the backside row.

I drilled the pocket holes in all the boards first, after which assembled them on the driveway. Essentially the most difficult half was working shortly sufficient with the PVC glue to get the boards collectively earlier than the glue began to dry.

And as soon as it was all collectively, I had to determine tips on how to drag that 27-foot size of PVC board skirting over to the constructing. PVC boards are very flexible, not like actual wooden. And I didn’t wish to drag it on the concrete face down as a result of it will scratch up the face of the boards. So I lastly realized that I might use the furnishings dolly on one finish after which decide up the opposite finish and pull it over to the constructing.

And by the point I obtained it to the buidling and lined up, not solely was I fully out of daylight, however I additionally realized that this complete 27-foot size goes to wish trenching for the skirting to suit.