Wooden skirting boards - choose the style
When choosing a skirting board, you should pay attention to the material from which it is made, to its shape and color. These seemingly insignificant at first glance details in fact allow you to withstand the design of the room in a unified style.
With a skillful selection of clearly visible pattern of wood texture on the surface is able to generally change the visual perception of the room. In the fashionable interior, where a parquet board of light tones or bleached oak is used as a floor covering, the plinth floor wooden white will fit very well.
It should be noted that the wooden plinth white is often used in the interior design of the room in the style of "Provence".The so-called plinth "mahogany", made of mahogany, teak or kempas, will give the working class a respectable look and emphasize the classic forms of a massive writing desk and book furniture.
Choice of material for wooden plinth
Traditionally, the width is chosen in accordance with the height of the doorways and the room itself. However, at the moment, a wide floor wooden skirting becomes more and more popular when applied in standard rooms. This is primarily due to aesthetic considerations and at the same time an expanded possibility of creating hidden cavities for cables and wires in it.
Usually the plinth is chosen from the same wood species as the flooring. Having carefully studied the regulatory plinth wooden GOST, you can get a lot of useful information about the requirements, which must necessarily satisfy this or that kind of product.
The most popular for today from wooden skirting boards for certain it is necessary to recognize a plinth pine. At a low price, the pine is resistant to fluctuations in air humidity and does not twist when it significantly changes, it can be easily processed and strong.
Some of these properties are possessed by other coniferous tree species, such as, for example, spruce, yew, fir or larch. However, spruce is not so durable, and other breeds far exceed the pine in price.
Softwoods of hardwoods such as linden, cherry or walnut, easily deformed, and hard oak, hornbeam or maple when cracked crack. So, the most suitable material for manufacturing at an affordable price is pine. But in order to produce a quality plinth wooden, the pine should be well dried and practically without knots.
We mount wooden skirting boards with our own hands
Any plinth, wooden or plastic, is easy to install on its own, but it is mounted in different ways. Certain difficulties at first for a layman can cause docking skirting at the corners. However, this issue is easily solved with the help of a chair - a device for cutting the bar at an angle of 90 or 45 degrees.
In case of need to "increase" the skirting the connected ends of two strips are also cut at an angle of 45 degrees, as a result of which the joint place becomes almost not noticeable. The skirting board made of wood is subject to cyclic compression and expansion, and therefore it is desirable to install it on the screws. The use of liquid nails is unacceptable.
Screw holes are drilled before installation, this allows to protect the wood from cracking. According to the existing standard, the distance between the centers of the holes must be 800-1200 mm, the distance from the floor surface is 15-20 mm. The length of used screws with a secret hat - from 25 to 30 mm.
