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I need to fit skirting board to two rooms in my house which have been plastered. It needs to be tall skirting due to new central heating pipes that I want to cover with skirting board. To avoid the pain in the neck job of glossing the skirting afterwards I am tempted to try to fit some sort of pre-decorated skirting board but not sure how it would work out. Has anyone fitted skirting board like this and where did you get it from? Does it look good or still need glossing anyway?

I am in the process of fitting new skirting in my hallway and to try to get around this problem, I cut it all to size and prepped and painted it first, so it will be a matter of just fitting it and just touching up any joints between Skirting and Architrave.

That's what I did anyway

That is how I have done it in the past as well as just fitting it and then glossing it. A mate of mine mentioned that you can get pre-decorated skirting board and it has planted a seed in my head. If it is not available then I will stick to the tried and trusted method

Get someone else to paint them..........Job Done

If I had bags of money I would Only-me

ive only seen pre primed mdf ones but im sure there is a high gloss skirtting about some where

chippymike wrote:ive only seen pre primed mdf ones

I used in many years ago in another house, still had to gloss it after fitting. Got it from one of these kitchen door warehouses that used to spring up on industrial estates then disappear a few weeks later.
Currently doing the lounge in the house I have now and gone back to pine, pre-cut, undercoat, fit and gloss.

Fair enough then - stick to glossing then. Now need some tips on how to persuade the wife to gloss them for me

last two lots of skirting I bought were both primed MDF

1st set was great and just needed a wipe and a paint

2nd set had to be rubbed down fully as I think they didn't bother doing any cleaning before the sprayed the primer on

moral of storey ... Be picky!