No More Nails (or equivilent)

pmartin86 · 8 January 2018 at 2:02PM

Looking for recomnedations, ive got 4 rroms of skirting board to do, would prefer to glue rather than nail/screw for various reasons. Is no more nails decent? anything better and/or cheaper for the job?

Slinky · 8 January 2018 at 2:15PM

We used it for sticking on a piece of plastic edging on an outward pointing wall corner and for a short section of skirting board and I was more impressed than I expected to be TBH. No experience of long lengths of skirting though.

TheCyclingProgrammer · 8 January 2018 at 2:18PM

All the skirting in my house was fixed with Gripfill, but it was still tacked to the walls using a nail gun to hold it tight to the wall while the adhesive goes off.

spadoosh · 8 January 2018 at 2:41PM

Ill second gripfill, cheaper and better. Plus the smell is heavenly.

Aylesbury_Duck · 8 January 2018 at 3:08PM

nomorenails and its equivalents all do the job, assuming the walls are straight. Personally I prefer screws because you get a better fit to any undulations in the wall (especially over longer runs) and can remove sections of skirting relatively easily should you ever need to, e.g. to run speaker or coax cable behind them, lay wooden flooring and so on.

AndyMc..... · 8 January 2018 at 3:24PM

Aylesbury_Duck wrote: »

nomorenails and its equivalents all do the job, assuming the walls are straight. Personally I prefer screws because you get a better fit to any undulations in the wall (especially over longer runs) and can remove sections of skirting relatively easily should you ever need to, e.g. to run speaker or coax cable behind them, lay wooden flooring and so on.

Go on then, how do you get to the screwheads to undo them?

TheCyclingProgrammer · 8 January 2018 at 3:28PM

AndyMc..... wrote: »

Go on then, how do you get to the screwheads to undo them?

Any kind of nail detector and dig out the filler?

Aylesbury_Duck · 8 January 2018 at 4:03PM

TheCyclingProgrammer wrote: »

Any kind of nail detector and dig out the filler?

Exactly this. Countersunk screws, blob of blue-tac or similar on the head to keep it clear, spot of filler, sand, paint, done. I use the wire/pipe detector to locate the screws or you could leave a discreet mark at ground level to tell you where they are. Once located, use a screwdriver to dig out the filler, the blu-tac comes off, clean screw head revealed.

martinsurrey · 8 January 2018 at 4:17PM

4.2m lengths of skirting, a nail gun, and a box of gripfill.

I used to use screws in my period house, because the walls were like boomerangs but in a relatively new build (like the 1900's!) with flat walls, its a breeze.

With planning I've never needed to take off skirting I've put on, and even if I did, i'd rather put new on than have to sand back the old stuff I'd taken off.

pmartin86 · 8 January 2018 at 4:24PM

Gripfill it is, thanks all.

Walls are reasonably straight (all just been fresly dot and dabbed and skimmed) so should be fine. Flooring allready down so that not an issue, and I dont see any reason to ever need them removed, the one room that has a TV in it has tubing behind the polaterboard along with a wide array of cables and spares to it, along with some "blank" strings to pull trhough more if needed.

-taff · 8 January 2018 at 5:41PM

I used clear silicone in a house I used to live in, the skirting was that brown plastic stuff. Worked ok.

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