Gap between skirting board and floor

happysellerbuyer

Hi All,

How could I fill the gap between the skirting board and the floor. TIA

Grenage

Decorator's caulk.

Green_hopeful

Not decorators caulk as the gap moves too much. We use stop gap. Its a folded plastic strip you push into the gap and the fold holds it in place. Seems expensive but it goes a long way. https://stopgaps.com/ You can easily remove it as well. It was a game changer in our old house. 

Bigphil1474

Our house has some beading along the edge in 2 of our rooms - plastic in some places, wood elsewhere. It looks a bit naff in places but it's on our list of things to sort (moved here last year) The wooden beading painted to match the skirt is probably the least naff. Looks like it's fixed to the skirt to allow a bit of movement.

chrisw

I think it looks ok as it is. I probably wouldn't have noticed it unless it was pointed out.

twopenny

But I've had this in my old house 1920s and there's a draught comes under so I used papier mache on mine because it was pre all the other stuff. It lasted decades.

The draught also brings irrimovable dirt onto carpet put to the edges.

FreeBear

twopenny said: But I've had this in my old house 1920s and there's a draught comes under so I used papier mache on mine because it was pre all the other stuff. It lasted decades.

I ripped skirting off, patched the plaster, and squirted expanding foam in to seal the gap.

It looks like @happysellerbuyer has laminate flooring down, and skirting has been fixed after the stuff was laid. A better solution than the ugly scotia strips that some fit when putting down laminate. The gap shown in the images is not very large. Perhaps stuffing some draught excluder in would give the required flexibility.

Veteransaver

Just get some strips of wooden beading

Murmansk

You can get expanding foam tape - nothing to do with the expanding foam that comes in a can. It's foam tape that expands if you see what I mean!

https://youtu.be/V6lZXjRR-1k?si=xqakQbWVa21DNojl

ic

That gap is so small I'd go with clear silicone.  If it were wider, I'd consider something like expanding foam on a roll - (self adhesive foam strip on a roll - available to suit different thicknesses - comes compressed, put in gap and it expands and closes the gap).

https://www.amazon.co.uk/XPANDA-Expanding-Foam-Tape-1mm-3mm/dp/B01CGBE9SY

grumpy_codger

ic said:

That gap is so small I'd go with clear silicone.

Why clear? There are many colours available to match either the skirting board or the floor.

https://www.screwfix.com/c/sealants-adhesives/sealants/cat850032?basetype=silicone