This involved cutting them to length, followed by carefully marking out and drilling the clearance holes. We first drilled with 3/16th, but due to imprecisions using hand tools we found 1/4" holes were much more likely to line up.
Here's the time-lapse of our work.
Then end result looks pretty good. I'll need to get some more approximately 5/8" screws.
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The 5/8" screws next to the attached skirt. |
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The corner with both matching skirt strips in place. |