Bespoke skirting recommendations

Michela

Hi,

I want to replicate my Edwardian skirting and wondered if anyone had any recommended places?

We are based in London.  I have looked locally and the costs are insane, the only reasonable place who were transparent with the cost of the cutter is too far away. They charged £75 for the cutter and then it was normal prices for the lengths produced.

Others I have found seem to be charging triple that or more.

Thanks

Bradden

https://www.mdfskirtingmouldings.co.uk/

I'm not sure if you've looked at this company. I use them regularly.

casper_gutman

I also found prices varied massively, and that the best prices were from places that charged a separate setup cost for the tooling and then a manageable rate per metre. This worked out better even though we only wanted a few metres, as others were asking silly money.

We used a place on the opposite side of the country, and never went there. Is the issue that you'd need to get a sample of the existing skirting to them to replicate? In our case the skirting was an unusual angular profile that I was able to draw out and email for them to work from. But it could be worth sending a sample by courier if that's what's needed?

FreeBear

casper_gutman said:

I also found prices varied massively, and that the best prices were from places that charged a separate setup cost for the tooling and then a manageable rate per metre. This worked out better even though we only wanted a few metres, as others were asking silly money.

Went through a similar exercise myself earlier in the year. Wanted to replicate some late 1920s mouldings. Have a couple of local companies that have spindle moulders. Setup charge of £70 if they had the right cutters on the shelf. Should new cutters be needed, that could cost another £120-180. Actual cost per metre wasn't much more than the raw material.

In the end, I purchased a variety of router bits and set up a router table to do ~16m. Skirting only needed a single cutter, architrave, two, and picture rail, four. If/when I need more mouldings, I now have the cutters to make more.

Michela

casper_gutman said:

I also found prices varied massively, and that the best prices were from places that charged a separate setup cost for the tooling and then a manageable rate per metre. This worked out better even though we only wanted a few metres, as others were asking silly money.

We used a place on the opposite side of the country, and never went there. Is the issue that you'd need to get a sample of the existing skirting to them to replicate? In our case the skirting was an unusual angular profile that I was able to draw out and email for them to work from. But it could be worth sending a sample by courier if that's what's needed?

Thank you, yes they do vary in price, eye watering in some cases.  We would send a sample as we have some that had to be removed.

Michela

FreeBear said:

casper_gutman said:

I also found prices varied massively, and that the best prices were from places that charged a separate setup cost for the tooling and then a manageable rate per metre. This worked out better even though we only wanted a few metres, as others were asking silly money.

Went through a similar exercise myself earlier in the year. Wanted to replicate some late 1920s mouldings. Have a couple of local companies that have spindle moulders. Setup charge of £70 if they had the right cutters on the shelf. Should new cutters be needed, that could cost another £120-180. Actual cost per metre wasn't much more than the raw material.

In the end, I purchased a variety of router bits and set up a router table to do ~16m. Skirting only needed a single cutter, architrave, two, and picture rail, four. If/when I need more mouldings, I now have the cutters to make more.

We hoped a local supplier would have it, all the skirting locally is the same from what I can tell. Maybe people just replace the whole lot or have inconsistencies. But we are restoring not renovating.  I wish we had your skills to do that.'