Nail Guns

[Anonymous]

Hi

I have got a lot of skirting/architrave/dado rails to fit in the next couple of months. Normally I use a combination of gripfill/plug and screw/nails/pins to get it all fixed. Now, I could continue in my set ways or I could use a nail gun. The problem is I don't know what nail gun to use. Obviously it needs to be a 2nd fix gun. I want to avoid a compressor/gun setup because I want the portability of cordless. My question is do these nail guns fix into brick/plaster walls or do you need to use different nails? Do you still need to use gripfill?

What do you do?

Any advice greatfully received.

rgds

Saint

 

[OllyK]

I use construction adhesive and some 1" nails in to the underlying door frame, punch and fill. Skirting is held on with construction adhesive - so far it hasn't moved and with the quality of modern adhesives, I doubt it ever will

 

[syntec4]

I did some skirting at Home this weekend. Normally I would screw, Plug and use a bit of gripfill or Pink grip to hold the skirting on. This takes a lot of time though. So this time I used a Hot melt glue gun and Pink Grip. The Holt melt glue goes hard almost instantly and hold the skirting on in the right place whilst the Pink grip goes off. It worked great, but you have to work quickly once you get the hot glue on. It only has an open time of about 30 seconds. No holes to fill and nothing to see if you're staining varnishing the skirting.

Lee.

 

[Jake]

I use the Axminster air masonry nailer for this kind of thing - excellent tool, no messy gungey glue, no need to insert grounds etc, just prop the skirting etc so it's vertical, bang bang bang. Bit of filler and its ready for painting. So quick it paid for itself in my mind in one room.

I don't think Paslode etc do masonry nails, but I might be wrong - Spit do for their Pulsa gun.

 

[George_N]

I use the Axminster air masonry nailer for this kind of thing - excellent tool, no messy gungey glue, no need to insert grounds etc, just prop the skirting etc so it's vertical, bang bang bang. Bit of filler and its ready for painting. So quick it paid for itself in my mind in one room.

I don't think Paslode etc do masonry nails, but I might be wrong - Spit do for their Pulsa gun.

Jake, are the masonry nails ok in nailing wood to wood, as in nailing skirtings to studs etc? Also do you know what gauge nails the Axminster masonry nailer takes as it doesen't seem to be listed on their web site?

 

[RogerS]

I did some skirting at Home this weekend. Normally I would screw, Plug and use a bit of gripfill or Pink grip to hold the skirting on. This takes a lot of time though. So this time I used a Hot melt glue gun and Pink Grip. The Holt melt glue goes hard almost instantly and hold the skirting on in the right place whilst the Pink grip goes off. It worked great, but you have to work quickly once you get the hot glue on. It only has an open time of about 30 seconds. No holes to fill and nothing to see if you're staining varnishing the skirting.

Lee.

That's a cracking tip, Lee. I'd not thought about using the hot glue as an interim measure.

 

[Jake]

Jake, are the masonry nails ok in nailing wood to wood, as in nailing skirtings to studs etc? Also do you know what gauge nails the Axminster masonry nailer takes as it doesen't seem to be listed on their web site?

They would work fine - but a bit of a waste of money. You can get ordinary non-masonry (non-hardened) t-nails for it for about a half or third of the price.

I think it's 14 gauge, but I'd have to check to be sure.

 

[Losos]

As Roger has said, that's a great tip Lee.

I would just emphasize the need to work fast, meaning have everything ready and to hand. In my, somewhat limited, experience the hot glue 'open time' is a MAX. 30 secs and it can be slightly less (I think there is a variance between the yellow & white sticks)

But it is still a great & quick way to fix skirting.

 

[engineer one]

i used gripfil and air nails last year, i use an ace &k nailer
the important things is to angle the nails.

the most important thing is to hold the skirting whilst the gripfil goes off.

some mates have the dewalt 18 volt nailer which seems to get a decent nod from them.

paul :wink: