All About Architrave!

Everyone carried on with doing the architraves and skotia today.  

I have been concentrating on getting the two rooms done that I have been working in, which has been Bedroom 3 & Toilet.   Yesterday I had done the skotia's in both room, and had almost finished the architraves in the toilet, so today I spent the most of the day in Bedroom 3.

Everything was much the same process, however learnt how to do the architraves for the doors, where the gap between the architrave and the corner of the wall is too small to fit the standard architrave timber in (40 x 10mm).  

Even though the timber does fit in the gap, it only leaves a tiny space to the corner, making it difficult for the stopper to get in to finish off the area.  As a result, the skirting timber is used and is ripped back to fit the whole space from the 3mm quirk to the corner.

To do this, the door should be taken off the hinges so that easy access to the area can occur (more so if fitting the wider architrave to the hinge side of the door).

Next the piece of wider timber cut to a 2.1m length is held in the space, hard up against the corner of the wall (so that the straight edge is against the corner of the wall, and the beveled edge is on the overhang), a ruler is used to ascertain where the largest overhang is present.  Once found, the rest of the timber should be fixed to this overhang amount along it's whole length, for example 7mm.

Once fixed and the overhang is double checked to be the same throughout the whole area, a packer must be found that is 10mm (the 7mm + 3mm quirk), which is run and marked out along the edge of the timber that is closest to the corner of the wall.  

This mark will show where the timber needs to be ripped to.  Once this line has been cut out, then a planer needs to be used to slightly undercut the edge and then it should be able to fit up against the wall.

Once done, this is checked and held up into the space to see if it fits, making modifications where necessary.  It should now fill the whole area between the door frame and the wall and still allow for a 3mm quirk.

For the top section of this length where the mitre cut is, it will need to be cut out flat by marking the section where it overhangs the already fixed 40x10mm timber for the top architrave, this way it will all sit flush.