Skirting Cover

yartin · Post by **yartin** » Thu Jul 25, 2024 10:09 am

Hi
Is it worth using skirting cover over old style ones? Any disadvantages?
Pic of skirting cover attached.

Thanks

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Rorschach · Post by **Rorschach** » Thu Jul 25, 2024 11:07 am

There' be so many lumps and bumps on the old skirting I doubt you will get a tight fit without lots of faffing about, probably easier to just rip it off and replace as the new stuff will be bigger than the old anyway.

big-all · Post by **big-all** » Thu Jul 25, 2024 2:07 pm

never knew it existed

pretty much as above
assuming walls all over the place and you need to pull in via an area the old skirting is your fixings will need to be say 25mm into the wall

now it may go fantastic till the last fixing then it starts to pull the old skirting off the wall

yartin · Post by **yartin** » Thu Jul 25, 2024 2:42 pm

big-all wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2024 2:07 pm never knew it existed

Same here , just came across them last night

big-all · Post by **big-all** » Thu Jul 25, 2024 5:56 pm

another point
normal skirting is around 15-18mm possibly more so to cover would need to be perhaps 25mm and the architrave are likly to be perhaps 18-22mm so a problem there

yartin · Post by **yartin** » Fri Jul 26, 2024 3:16 pm

It's not really worth it, easy to take skirting off the wall, I took off skirting few months ago to lay wood flooring and put them back without mush hassle.