04/07/2022
Categories: Floors

Wide plastic skirting Board for floor

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When you choose?
Properties wide plastic moldings
Wide plastic moldings
A wide polyurethane moldings
Installation of the wide plastic moldings

Floor covering installation and your repair is close to completion. It remains to give the floor a finished look for what you want to install the baseboard around the perimeter of the room. It is a decorative profile that is made from various materials: wood, cork, polyurethane, foam PVC, MDF, aluminium. Today the market of building materials there was even such an exotic look of the floor, as «liquid» – open the vacuum packaging of bulk items, and he was under the influence of the air freezes. Here, truly, that the producers are ready for any whim for our money to provide!

This product performs the following functions:

Decorative. Correctly chosen and installed product not only give the flooring a finished appearance, but will also act as a standalone decor item.
Allows for hidden wiring.
Allows you to hide are not always a perfect place fit the flooring to the walls.

When you choose? ↑

The choice of profile shape, material, texture and color will dictate the style of the room. The style determines the size of the plinth.

It is important! There is a universal rule according to which in rooms with a ceiling height of 2.6 m milking you need to choose the product width up to 70 mm. For 3-meter ceilings stop your choice on the product width up to 90 mm (but not less than 70 mm), and if the ceiling is even higher – feel free to buy the plinth with a minimum width of 100 mm. Should, however, be remembered that despite the universality of this rule, in areas where a wide ceiling moldings, a relatively narrow plinth will look ugly.

A skirting Board on your profile is quite specific. If the bar believes a universal width plastic skirting 60 mm can close the distance from the wall to the floor covering 22 mm (recall that when laying laminate it is necessary to leave an expansion gap from the floor to the wall in the 10-15 mm), the wide product distance is not close. But thanks to his profile furniture can be installed close to the walls.

Category «wide» is the product made of plastic with a width of 80-100 mm in standard length of 2.5 m. Products made of polyurethane can have a width up to 150 mm.

Properties wide plastic moldings ↑

Plastic products made from foamed polyvinyl chloride, or PVC. PVC products are different:

Easy installation.
Light weight.
Strength and resistance to mechanical damage.
Moisture resistance, allowing you to use it in bathrooms.
Resistance to ultraviolet light. In other words, they will not «fade» in the light.
Resistance to high and low temperatures. That’s just sudden temperature changes such products carry not very good.
Plastic products can be installed in any room in the house, including children’s rooms.
Does not require additional processing after installation.
Simulates different types of wood and other materials on the market represented a huge number of different options that allows you to combine them with different types of flooring.

Easy to care for. Them simply wipe with a damp cloth or brush.

Wide plastic moldings ↑

This is the most common form of wide products, primarily due to cost, variety of colors and performance.

The Council. It is believed that the plastic plinth is a universal solution. It is not so. For some interiors it is not suitable: would not such a product «look» with art, stacked expensive parquet and parquet Board (for such options of flooring need to pick up a nice wooden plinth) or in rooms decorated in classical style with stucco. In order to maintain the style of the interior, will have to pick up the broad polyurethane product.

This does not mean that siricoidea of plastic suitable only for the budget repair. It perfectly combines functionality with aesthetic properties. Moreover, the times the same type of pine skirting boards in the form of a rectangular triangle are long gone, and now it will not be difficult to find a product with interesting and suits your style profile.

Plastic moldings are produced of soft and rigid foam PVC. Very popular products with cable channels. The transaction can be skipped in special grooves on the inner side of the product or in the cable channel, which is in its main parts, and covered with a decorative panel that provides easy access to the wires at any time without dismantling.

A wide polyurethane moldings ↑

These products are ideal for rooms in classical style. They are widely used in English interior and are distinguished by restrained nobility of profile lines of.

Traditional white is considered the color of the product, but now you can buy white skirting with the possibility of painting in any desired color to any interior space.

The Council. Experts recommend painting to produce a day after the installation of the product, and the use of acrylic paint in the cans. So you can achieve a more even application of paint. Walls and flooring close with masking tape.

Installation of the wide plastic moldings ↑

Set of wide plastic skirting usually clips or screws that are screwed into anchors in the wall.

In the first case, mounted hidden fasteners, then it put on the bar of the product until it clicks into place connecting elements. This method is applicable to smooth walls. The curvature of the surface wall mounting serious trouble.

For the second method of installation you will need:

Drill.
Screwdriver.
Gon.
Roulette.
Pencil.
Knife.

First it is necessary to determine the exact number of all items that will be needed during installation: end covers, internal and external corners, joiners, which are used to joining two baseboards. These items are sold separately and it is better to buy them with a small margin, so as not to interrupt later work.

It is recommended to check the color of the straps of the product before installation. Sometimes in one package the shade of the straps can vary. In such cases, strips of a darker shade set in front of the Windows, and the difference in color will be completely invisible.

Installation starts from the corner of the room. Remember that the connecting rod should be positioned in places where it is planned to put the furniture. The plinth is marked and cut down to size. Unlike polyurethane, plastic moldings in the corners is cut off flush and insert in the interior or exterior angles. Step installation of dowels depends on the flatness of the surface of the wall and is 300-500 mm. at First a thin drill drill bar product, then a 6 mm drill, make the holes for the dowels. After the screws are tightened, they are closed with decorative plugs to the color of the product.

Even easier set of wide plastic plinth with cable channel, indoor decorative strap. Strap is removable, drilled holes (in this case, you can use drill bit 6 mm), hammered the dowels, tighten the screws after wiring the decorative molding is set in place.

Additional otkleivanie connecting elements, which is practiced by some masters, it makes sense when mounting in rooms with uneven walls. If the walls have a smooth surface, without that this additional operation it is possible to do.

Properly selected and installed, the baseboard becomes an important part of the interior, without which floor coverage would not have finished, as the whole interior space. Outdoor wide plastic moldings enable you to perfectly finish the design of a room in which a narrow plinth would look out of place.

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