ive never come across one like that but if i did id wouldnt be cutting it id be telling the get new plinths
dont do doors or plinths. cut my own doors at home, wouldnt wish that on anyone. you can limbo under one in my house :lol:
the company i work for get me to cut plinths with our makita jigsaw with laminate cutting blades never been shown how 2 cut a door there have been some cases i've left the plinths for joiners if the customer has sorted that out before floor has been fitted, as for doors some have joiners ready to come back but if i had the right tools i would, the company i work for dont have them though
i also fit kitchens as well as wood type flooring. i trim the plinths down with my table saw and a guide, end panels with a circular saw and doors with an electric planer. plinths dont have to be tight, you cant see the top
For you lot coming on the forum open day i will show you cutting doors. Also, its good practice to actually leave a gap above the plinth. You dont want to be creating a sealed area under the cubards with no airflow.
My prefered method is a Feestool Track with circular saw. However on the open day you can all try out different tools for the job like - Feestool , Door Trimmer / boss , Plane etc.
On my jobs I do doors and plinths. Use a plane on the plinths, that way I can scribe them into the floor if theres any uneveness. Normally use door trimmer on doors unless they're solid wood then score and plane them. If I'm doing a job for another company then it depends on what they are prepared to pay. If I don't think the money's right then tell them to get a chippie in. I'd like to have a go on the Festool with guide rail, had my eye on the Dewalt or Mafell versions for a while.
I cut plinths and doors with a dewault skill saw. score the doors first like you say trimmer, then cut. Always try to get out of cutting the brand new veneer doors if I can. 1 shop I worked for, the boss would come out and hand saw the doors he was so tight.
:lol: your 1 of those are you. Do you pull the underlay scraps out the rubbish bags too, that was another one of his traits, never waste anything. To be fair all the doors were cut clean and he could cut them pretty fast.
LOL, ye i know a chap like that. One of my mates works for the one chap that likes to make sure you have used every thing up. The once my mate got caught short on a site that had no working toilets and had to go for a 'number 2' in a empty bucket of F3 LOL, he dumped the bucket containing his number 2 in it in the skip and the gaffer came along checking the buckets to see if all the glue had been used up. He had a surprise when he opened up this F3 bucket :lol:
If he was really mean he would have used it to stick some flooring down :lol: It is a reference for something that sticks.
Nice like it. The best one I did was when I was 16 I needed a dump and the old man said use the toilet upstairs boy, but dad theres a sign on the door that says do not use, he goes thas ok boy just make sure you clean it up and it flushes away properly ok, off I trot do my buisness flush and all of a sudden theres a load of screaming and shouting offensive words coming from outside, I run down stairs the old man is grinning from ear to ear looking out of the window at this very large brickie climbing out of the man hole and my buisness is sprayed all up him. He comes storming up the foot path waving his poo covered trowel at us. The old man said best go and get the bucket and sponge of the van boy looks like we gonna need to atleast offer to sponge him down, which we did and the old man took him for a few beers after work and we all had a good laugh about it.
I was fitting a floor a few years ago and I'd taken out the loo and told the owner. He forgot and had a dump in the loo in the en-suite through the wall and when he flushed it all came through, out the soil pipe and over the new floor and nearly over me. At least he did the cleaning up but he was really embarrassed about it. I felt I knew my customer far too intimately for comfort :lol:
