No Skirting in The Home????

New build here

I hope to have oak wooden flooring in most of the house

I plan to have White Oak doors and architrave.

Is it a good idea to have no shirting?

I was thinking of using a timber bead to finish/hide and allow for the expansion joint

Ta

I think you'd be mad with lovely oak flooring not to finish it off and set it off right with nice skirting, also the skirts serve a valuable purpose as bumpers for the Walls, with just beading there the bottom of the Walls will get very grubby as they get hit with Hoover, dusty brushes and mops. You'd really be surprised, I give the skirts a run every time I clean the floors and you'd be surprised how much gets caught there that would be on your painteork were it not for the skirts.

Just allow enough of the oak to provide for your skirting. Based on our experience the extra cost was marginal. Our bathroom was floored with oak approx 3/4 inch thick and we simply used the same timber for skirting and architrave. Looks great!

U will need skirting.. as per other posters bottom of wall will get damaged... i think ideally needs to be same material as architrave.. square edge think better than the normal grooved skirting

thanks to all

Cheers guys

I think the best option for me is to put in skirting

My new plan is to put in the oak arhitrave and paint the skirting the same colour as the walls

the architrace and the skirting will have the same profile though (a simple bevel edge like you said Chlipps)

Its always good to get the obvious pointed out!!!!!!!!!!!!

another option

while people may argue that the use of a skirting board is to protect the walls from damage - hoover etcr, its other function is to hide the often unsightly plaster finish left at the junction between wall and floor. more often than not the plasterer will finish to 2-3 inches from the floor which the skirting board then covers. If your walls have not yet been plastered you still have the option of creating a shadow gap between the wall and floor. This more contemporary look is what you spoke of in your original post - from the beginning of the modernist era, architects have tried to strip back the home from unnecessary embellishments and ornament resulting in the creation of this shadow gap.

there is a number of ways to create this shadow gap, the most inexpensive is incorporating a 10-15mm C channel between the junction of wall and floor. there are a number of systems out there such as this one

100percentdesign [dot] co [dot] uk/ExhibitorLibrary/663/RZ-PB-E_SohoSkirting_1.pdf

the above system allows a shadow gap or a shadow gap with skirting boards which are flush with the finished plaster - quite a nice look in my opinion.

here is another link which may explain it more precisely. you can google for more advice.

homebuilding[dot] co [dot] uk/feature/modern-essentials-shadow-gaps

if you still go with skirting, please use beveled as stated and not the horrible moulded boards.


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