[Stephen[_6_]]

Hello,

Does anyone here make their own skirting board and architrave or don't
you bother since it's so readily available from the shops?

I've spent the evening having a right old swear because it seems I've
bought chamfered skirting from two different batches and it does not
line up. I'm sure it was bought from the same merchant.

At least making your own would ensure that they were all the same.

Thanks,
Stephen.

[BigWallop[_2_]]

"Stephen" wrote in message

Hello,

Does anyone here make their own skirting board and architrave or don't
you bother since it's so readily available from the shops?

I've spent the evening having a right old swear because it seems I've
bought chamfered skirting from two different batches and it does not
line up. I'm sure it was bought from the same merchant.

At least making your own would ensure that they were all the same.

Thanks,
Stephen.


I had to make ours. This old tenement flat has the old mouldings, and they
are not available today, anywhere. So it was out with router and hand tools
for a very relaxing week of sculpting wood.

I would say that there is still a place for making your own bespoke fixtures
and fittings.

...

[gunsmith]

On 22 Aug, 04:01, "BigWallop" wrote:
"Stephen" wrote in message



Hello,

Does anyone here make their own skirting board and architrave or don't
you bother since it's so readily available from the shops?

I've spent the evening having a right old swear because it seems I've
bought chamfered skirting from two different batches and it does not
line up. I'm sure it was bought from the same merchant.

At least making your own would ensure that they were all the same.

Thanks,
Stephen.

I had to make ours. *This old tenement flat has the old mouldings, and they
are not available today, anywhere. *So it was out with router and hand tools
for a very relaxing week of sculpting wood.

I would say that there is still a place for making your own bespoke fixtures
and fittings.

Almost mandatory if restoring old buildings. Door mouldings too.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

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BigWallop wrote:
I had to make ours. This old tenement flat has the old mouldings, and
they are not available today, anywhere. So it was out with router and
hand tools for a very relaxing week of sculpting wood.

With this sort of Victorian house - built from a sort of kit - the stone
mouldings if they look the same tend to be identical across lots of
London. But the woodwork was sourced locally so can be different in the
same street of similar looking houses.

I would say that there is still a place for making your own bespoke
fixtures and fittings.

I had a similar problem with skirtings when removing the wall between the
two ground floor rooms. Luckily had a local woodworking place with a
spindle moulder who made up some cutters to a pattern. And then ran off
some cheaply - it was just the top part which was difficult, and this was
separate. Still got the cutters. The architrave was close enough to what's
still available to allow total replacement round one door to look ok
against another which was original.

--
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[Corporal Jones]

Stephen wrote:
Hello,

Does anyone here make their own skirting board and architrave or don't
you bother since it's so readily available from the shops?

I've spent the evening having a right old swear because it seems I've
bought chamfered skirting from two different batches and it does not
line up. I'm sure it was bought from the same merchant.

At least making your own would ensure that they were all the same.

Thanks,
Stephen.

It is a problem with older houses, for minor alterations I have had to
make my own but for a major job I replace the whole lot in the room with
off the shelf equivalents.

--
Corporal Jones
"I don't like it up me"

[Dave Plowman (News)]

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Corporal Jones wrote:

Stephen wrote:
Hello,

Does anyone here make their own skirting board and architrave or don't
you bother since it's so readily available from the shops?

I've spent the evening having a right old swear because it seems I've
bought chamfered skirting from two different batches and it does not
line up. I'm sure it was bought from the same merchant.

At least making your own would ensure that they were all the same.

Thanks,
Stephen.

It is a problem with older houses, for minor alterations I have had to
make my own but for a major job I replace the whole lot in the room with
off the shelf equivalents.

Nothing even remotely similar available for the skirting in some of the
rooms in this Victorian house - it's 14" high.

--
*Letting a cat out of the bag is easier than putting it back in *

Dave Plowman London SW
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[John]

Nothing even remotely similar available for the skirting in some of the
rooms in this Victorian house - it's 14" high.



I wonder what the origins were of having it so high. Do we ever wish ours
were higher? Was it just because the materials were more readily available?

[Bolted[_3_]]

On 22 Aug, 10:32, "John" wrote:
Nothing even remotely similar available for the skirting in some of the
rooms in this Victorian house - it's 14" high.

I wonder what the origins were of having it so high. Do we ever wish ours
were higher? Was it just because the materials were more readily available?

I think it was simply ostentation - it looks grand. Similar to high
ceiling heights. Also, high skirting and high ceilings go well
together proportionally - stick a 14" skirting in an 8' room and it is
going to look very strange indeed, and the same with a 4" skirting in
a 10'+ room.

Dave has an inch and a half more than me (but at least his is huge),
but they cheated in mine and stuck it together from two planks, upper
one with the pretty standard ogee on the top edge and a bead on the
bottom, lower one with a bead on the upper edge, and then edge
jointed.

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John wrote:



Nothing even remotely similar available for the skirting in some of the
rooms in this Victorian house - it's 14" high.



I wonder what the origins were of having it so high. Do we ever wish
ours were higher? Was it just because the materials were more readily
available?

Dunno - but it looks in proportion due to the high ceilings.
There's no damp proof course in this house and the plaster stops at the
skirting. So perhaps helps the bricks by ventilation?

--
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Dave Plowman London SW
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Bolted wrote:
Dave has an inch and a half more than me (but at least his is huge),
but they cheated in mine and stuck it together from two planks, upper
one with the pretty standard ogee on the top edge and a bead on the
bottom, lower one with a bead on the upper edge, and then edge
jointed.

Mine is in three bits. A fairly ornate moulding on the top - about 2"
high. Plain wood of the same thickness below for about 4", then the lower
part sits on top (proud) of that bit - and has an ogee on the top edge.

The rented flat I had quite close to here - part of a large detached house
- had skirtings made of concrete with a plaster facing.

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