The main functional purpose of skirting boards is to conceal the seams between the walls and the floor of the room. However, an equally important role is assigned and its decorative function. The article will talk about how to choose a skirting board that combines in its characteristics both of these points.
Choose the color of the skirting board
There is a rule according to which the skirting board must be selected in tone with the color scheme of walls and floor, less often – door platbands. On the other hand, a vivid solution that will effectively emphasize the individuality of the room can be the choice of a skirting board of contrast tones. In case of doubt, how to choose a skirting board, postpone the solution of this issue for the time when the walls of walls and gender will already be completed, then it will be easier to navigate taking into account the general style.
Sninch material
How to choose a skirting board, taking into account the flooring in the room? The answer is obvious – a combination of materials is important. For a parquet, a massive sex board, linoleum, laminate and carpet, a skirting board from an array, MDF, veneer can come up. If the flooring is such materials such as linoleum, laminate, jute, choose PVC or MDF PLINTUS. In the case of ceramic tiles, purchase PVC plinth.
Skirting material: an array of wood and veneer
Wooden skirting boards are made using several types of wood, where pine or spruce can be used as the basis, and the top is a coating of veneer of valuable wood (oak, cherry, ash, alder). In addition, skirting boards are made from whole arrays. Wooden skirting boards can be equipped with a cable channel.
The advantages of wood skirting boards are environmental friendliness, strength, long service life.
Of the shortcomings, we note a high price, as well as the need to limit sharp fluctuations in temperature and humidity in the room, which slightly limits their area of use.
Wooden skirting boards are glued to a well -aligned, cleaned and low -fat surface of the wall. End sections must be carefully adjusted at the stage of preparation for work. For the installation of an veneered skirting board, clips or “liquid nails” are taken.
MDF skirting boards are made using the technology of hot pressing of wood fibers and binding substances. They are evaluated as quite strong and persistent to damage.
Skirts of this type are used for floors from laminate, linoleum, and also when the premises have lining with decorative MDF panels.
The advantages of skirting boards from MDF will be their low relatively wooden analogues price, good resistance to dust, pollution, moisture and ultravioletus.
MDF-plinths are planted on glue or fixed with special hooks-slopes, tightly planting a skirting board on them. The ends of the ends are covered with plugs, and corner joints – corners. Such installation makes it possible to subsequently use skirting boards more than once, removing them in case of repair.
Skirting material: foamed PVC
For edging flooring of synthetic materials (laminate, carpet, linoleum), plastic skirting boards are used. Soft edge skirting boards are close to the wall surfaces, repeating their relief.
This type of skirting board on the back is equipped with a fixing channel and a niche for the wire. Often, a plastic skirting board, designed to framed linoleum and carpet, is equipped with a groove and on the front side, which serves to insert a long narrow piece of carpet or linoleum, providing color and textured unity of surfaces. Choose a skirting board for laminated and other floor coverings should be taken into account taking into account their pattern and color scheme.
A simpler option for PVC skirting boards can be Plinks-Plans, containing a strong adhesive tape, which allows attaching a scheduled skirting board to the wall.
High moisture resistance is an undoubted plus of such skirting boards. They are little susceptible to decay, do not change the shape when fluctuations in humidity and temperature.
Unfortunately, the minuses of plastic skirting boards will be low strength and fragility.
Plastic skirting boards are mounted using fasteners, which after work are closed with strips. The wall surface, to which the skirting board will be attached, should be as flat and dry as possible.
Care
How to choose a skirting board, determined. And how to care for him? To keep it clean, quite small wet cleaning. Avoid strong moisture: remove dust with a vacuum cleaner, strong pollution with a soft rag using non -aggressive detergents.