Skirting board question

cyclonebri1

pitkin2020 wrote: »

as above, most will glue these days rather than pin. The other issue to bear in mind when screwing/pinning is catching cables in the wall. It does happen even a new build we tested a few weeks ago the chippie had nailed the skirting board straight through a cable in not one but two rooms!!!

Isn't that more of a fault of the sparky concerned rather than the chippy, unless he was using seriously long nails.?

pitkin2020

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

Isn't that more of a fault of the sparky concerned rather than the chippy, unless he was using seriously long nails.?

and you came to that conclusion how?? How do you think you get power around your home?? Cables are in the walls and certainly in the instances i gave they were coming from under the floor upto sockets, there is no where else they can go until they can invent wireless sockets.
As for the nail length no idea but when being driven in by a nail gun a 40-50mm nail could (and obviously did) quite easily hit a cable. Its only a stud wall after all.