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How's it done? No skirting boards
Flicking through some of the various interior design mags and I see a
lot of nicely done new builds have no skirting boards at all. The plaster seems to sit about 10-15mm off the floor and the line is perfectly straight. How is it done exactly? Seems a bit tricky to me to achieve with dot/ dab and skimming to get a perfectly straight edge with nothing to plaster up to. |
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The Natural Philosopher wrote:
wrote: Flicking through some of the various interior design mags and I see a lot of nicely done new builds have no skirting boards at all. The plaster seems to sit about 10-15mm off the floor and the line is perfectly straight. How is it done exactly? Seems a bit tricky to me to achieve with dot/ dab and skimming to get a perfectly straight edge with nothing to plaster up to. Use battens and remove when plaster is set. Then install flooring of a depth 10-15mm less than the battens were.. But that gives a very weak edge, one that is going to get chipped when kicked or when the hoover is knocked against it. A stop bead provides some protection, in much the same way as a corner bead does. Andrew |
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On Dec 20, 12:26 pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
wrote: Flicking through some of the various interior design mags and I see a lot of nicely done new builds have no skirting boards at all. The plaster seems to sit about 10-15mm off the floor and the line is perfectly straight. How is it done exactly? Seems a bit tricky to me to achieve with dot/ dab and skimming to get a perfectly straight edge with nothing to plaster up to. Use battens and remove when plaster is set. Then install flooring of a depth 10-15mm less than the battens were.. But why? Just seems like a huge dust trap to me, or is it "fashion" or "design"? |
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On 20 Dec, 12:24, Andrew May wrote:
wrote: Flicking through some of the various interior design mags and I see a lot of nicely done new builds have no skirting boards at all. The plaster seems to sit about 10-15mm off the floor and the line is perfectly straight. How is it done exactly? Seems a bit tricky to me to achieve with dot/ dab and skimming to get a perfectly straight edge with nothing to plaster up to. It's called a shadow gap and with plastering it is achieved with a stop bead which is a strip of expanded mesh (like the corner beads) but with a lip. This is attached at the required height and then plastering is done up to it. Don't know whether the effect can be achieved with plasterboard. Andrew Thanks! It seems there's various types of bead out there including plasterboard beads. http://www.renderplas.co.uk/downloads/POS-Brochure.pdf Very interesting. |
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Andrew May wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote: wrote: Flicking through some of the various interior design mags and I see a lot of nicely done new builds have no skirting boards at all. The plaster seems to sit about 10-15mm off the floor and the line is perfectly straight. How is it done exactly? Seems a bit tricky to me to achieve with dot/ dab and skimming to get a perfectly straight edge with nothing to plaster up to. Use battens and remove when plaster is set. Then install flooring of a depth 10-15mm less than the battens were.. But that gives a very weak edge, one that is going to get chipped when kicked or when the hoover is knocked against it. A stop bead provides some protection, in much the same way as a corner bead does. well that wasn't specifed in the OP's question. :-) Agreed a stop bead works very well. Andrew |
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Man at B&Q wrote:
On Dec 20, 12:26 pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote: wrote: Flicking through some of the various interior design mags and I see a lot of nicely done new builds have no skirting boards at all. The plaster seems to sit about 10-15mm off the floor and the line is perfectly straight. How is it done exactly? Seems a bit tricky to me to achieve with dot/ dab and skimming to get a perfectly straight edge with nothing to plaster up to. Use battens and remove when plaster is set. Then install flooring of a depth 10-15mm less than the battens were.. But why? Just seems like a huge dust trap to me, or is it "fashion" or "design"? Cheap. |
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How's it done? No skirting boards
"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message But why? Just seems like a huge dust trap to me, or is it "fashion" or "design"? Cheap. You do a good bird impression. |
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On 20 Dec, 13:13, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Man at B&Q wrote: On Dec 20, 12:26 pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote: wrote: Flicking through some of the various interior design mags and I see a lot of nicely done new builds have no skirting boards at all. The plaster seems to sit about 10-15mm off the floor and the line is perfectly straight. How is it done exactly? Seems a bit tricky to me to achieve with dot/ dab and skimming to get a perfectly straight edge with nothing to plaster up to. Use battens and remove when plaster is set. Then install flooring of a depth 10-15mm less than the battens were.. But why? Just seems like a huge dust trap to me, or is it "fashion" or "design"? Cheap. Not according to this: http://www.homebuilding.co.uk/Design...on=View&ID=220 "In other words, if you don't think you can get them right, don't attempt them in the first place. They can be so time consuming and labour intensive that you may ask if they are worth the bother." |
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How's it done? No skirting boards
On 20 Dec, 14:32, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
wrote: On 20 Dec, 13:13, The Natural Philosopher wrote: Man at B&Q wrote: On Dec 20, 12:26 pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote: wrote: Flicking through some of the various interior design mags and I see a lot of nicely done new builds have no skirting boards at all. The plaster seems to sit about 10-15mm off the floor and the line is perfectly straight. How is it done exactly? Seems a bit tricky to me to achieve with dot/ dab and skimming to get a perfectly straight edge with nothing to plaster up to. Use battens and remove when plaster is set. Then install flooring of a depth 10-15mm less than the battens were.. But why? Just seems like a huge dust trap to me, or is it "fashion" or "design"? Cheap. Not according to this: http://www.homebuilding.co.uk/Design...on=View&ID=220 "In other words, if you don't think you can get them right, don't attempt them in the first place. They can be so time consuming and labour intensive that you may ask if they are worth the bother." Was that skirting boards? Getting THEM right is very hard. no paint on the walls or floor.. No, he's refering to stop beads to create a gap shadow |
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In article 0614a6ce-9728-44bd-874f-822291319d52
@e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com, says... The plaster seems to sit about 10-15mm off the floor and the line is perfectly straight. Space for the fleas and silverfish to lurk in! I do think that's taking green living a bit far. -- Skipweasel. Never knowingly understood. |
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On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:51:48 -0800 (PST), "
wrote: On 20 Dec, 13:13, The Natural Philosopher wrote: Man at B&Q wrote: On Dec 20, 12:26 pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote: wrote: Flicking through some of the various interior design mags and I see a lot of nicely done new builds have no skirting boards at all. The plaster seems to sit about 10-15mm off the floor and the line is perfectly straight. How is it done exactly? Seems a bit tricky to me to achieve with dot/ dab and skimming to get a perfectly straight edge with nothing to plaster up to. Use battens and remove when plaster is set. Then install flooring of a depth 10-15mm less than the battens were.. But why? Just seems like a huge dust trap to me, or is it "fashion" or "design"? Cheap. Not according to this: http://www.homebuilding.co.uk/Design...on=View&ID=220 What an annoying site. Full of ads that my ad blocker doesn't remove and it keeps reloading the page. M |
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How's it done? No skirting boards
In article , Mark
writes On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:51:48 -0800 (PST), " wrote: On 20 Dec, 13:13, The Natural Philosopher wrote: Man at B&Q wrote: On Dec 20, 12:26 pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote: wrote: Flicking through some of the various interior design mags and I see a lot of nicely done new builds have no skirting boards at all. The plaster seems to sit about 10-15mm off the floor and the line is perfectly straight. How is it done exactly? Seems a bit tricky to me to achieve with dot/ dab and skimming to get a perfectly straight edge with nothing to plaster up to. Use battens and remove when plaster is set. Then install flooring of a depth 10-15mm less than the battens were.. But why? Just seems like a huge dust trap to me, or is it "fashion" or "design"? Cheap. Not according to this: http://www.homebuilding.co.uk/Design...on=View&ID=220 What an annoying site. Full of ads that my ad blocker doesn't remove and it keeps reloading the page. Seconded, I got bored with it and stopped all internet traffic while I looked at the page, 5mins later it had tried to contact the google ads server 150 times. Opera with automatic redirection disabled blocks most difficult ads for me but it does dampen the browsing experience a little. -- fred Plusnet - I hope you like vanilla |
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