Skirting board options

Boohoo

WIA my understanding is that the whole kitchen had to be screeded so there now has to be new skirting or whatever around the floor/walls.

I think it would be better to have the same height/ style all the way in the kitchen.

We have only seen the the rad photo so no idea if it's a kitchen or kitchen/diner.

Sapindus

I need something all the way round, I took all the old skirting off, but one wall is all cabinets and one wall mostly. The wall where the radiator is has no cabinets so is the longest piece, but even that has a door in it as well so the radiator takes up a lot of it. The "architrave option" is using architrave AS skirting, just because it tends to be smaller in cross section. If I find architrave with the same top profile as skirting I could do the radiator wall in architrave and the others in slightly taller real skirting, but I'm not sure of the point, unless there's something unique about skirting which I'm not understanding.

bjorn_toby_wilde

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81942608#Comment_81942608

There’s nothing different really. It’s the same thickness, as it has to join to skirting when it’s used around doors. It’s just narrower, so in this context you’d be using it as dwarf skirting (to coin a phrase!)

The only problem might be if it’s not available in the width you need, in which case ripping down skirting with a table saw would be a better option.

greyteam1959

Find a local timber merchant.

They will have lots and lots of different sizes and shapes of architraves & skirting

WIAWSNB

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81942608#Comment_81942608

It's pure aesthetics and individual taste.

I understand now - thanks Boohoo - that the idea was to use architrave instead of skirting, and that is perfectly fine as long as you are happy with how it looks.

Personally, I like tall skirting, but that's an individual thing.

Your options would appear to be;

1) raise the radiator up to allow full-height skirting to run along the room,

2) possibly you'll get away with just adding ~15mm spacers behind the rad brackets to hold the rad out enough to allow the full-height skirting to slip behind it (would need measuring),

3) fit full-height skirting where you can, and step it down where the rad is,

4) use architrave instead of skirting throughout.