Gluing skirting boards

[Gaza]

on the unit jobs we work on we just use the cheap **** builders adhesive $2.50 tube. (Fullers not that bostik crap at bunnings) and hold it in place with 30mm skirting nails or use a hardened brad fired from a special air bradder.

my mate who does big $$$ houses uses spegati with 3in BH nails but still uses adhesive.

and dont forget to prime the back of the skirting.

[dbear]

After reading all of the advice/opinion, I went ahead and did a combination of gluing and nailing. I used the Sikaflex (about $20 a tube but I wanted it to stay on) to bond between the the skirting boards (jarrah) and the rendered brick wall. I nailed it in place to hold it there until the glue set. I used normal bullet heads (40 x 2.5 mm) and nailed into 8 mm dowels set into the wall. To set the dowels, I pre-nailed the skirting boards, tapped them up against the wall to mark and then drilled in. I then pushed the dowel in as far as it would go and broke it off at wall level (assisted by a chisel). I was told that 6 mm was the normal size dowel but with movement of the masonry bit when drilling the holes was worried about the dowels and nails aligning. In the end it all appears to have worked a treat.

Ta