Darren D
Established Member
We are probably going to lay a hardwood floor in our living room. Homebase sell packs of solid "parawood" for around £12/m and this seems excellent value. We used it in our last house and it looked great.
The boards are 120cm x 16cm and are 15mm deep and I was wondering if they could be used to make skirting too? Obviously I'd need to rip off the tongues and grooves and round over the top (and possible route in some other interesting detail). The biggest problem I see is that I would need 2 or 3 joins for each wall to make a full length of skirting. Also I'd need to varnish the top and joins to match the existing finish on the rest of the board which might be awkward to get exactly right.
Obviously if it works, I get new skirting that is a perfect match for the floor for around £2/m.
Is this a crazy plan? If not, any thoughts or tips? Am I right in thinking that hardwood skirting usually costs hugely more than £2/m and so this effort will be worthwhile?
Darren
The boards are 120cm x 16cm and are 15mm deep and I was wondering if they could be used to make skirting too? Obviously I'd need to rip off the tongues and grooves and round over the top (and possible route in some other interesting detail). The biggest problem I see is that I would need 2 or 3 joins for each wall to make a full length of skirting. Also I'd need to varnish the top and joins to match the existing finish on the rest of the board which might be awkward to get exactly right.
Obviously if it works, I get new skirting that is a perfect match for the floor for around £2/m.
Is this a crazy plan? If not, any thoughts or tips? Am I right in thinking that hardwood skirting usually costs hugely more than £2/m and so this effort will be worthwhile?
Darren