Skirting – Gluing internal corners?

paperclap

Hi all,

This is more of a “Why don’t we do this?”, rather than a “Should I do this?”.

With skirting, we glue external corners.

Why is it that we don’t glue internal corners?

FreeBear

If you have mitred the joints (you did mitre them....), the skirting has space to expand and contract. Glue the joints, and the return might pull away from the wall.

paperclap

Mitred and glued the external joints, but scribed the internal joints (which given I’m using square-edge skirting, so effectively a butt joint).

Sorry, what do you mean with “return”?

FreeBear

paperclap said: Sorry, what do you mean with “return”?

The other length of skirting that forms the corner joint.

paperclap

Ah, so the length that butts up against the wall