Timeline for Why do we fit skirting boards to collect dust?
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| Jan 30, 2016 at 8:25 | answer | added | user48518 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 30, 2016 at 6:37 | comment | added | user207421 | It's possible to do without them altogether with plaster as well, if the builder is skilful enough. My house built 1996 has none, and no gaps after 20 years. | |
| Jan 30, 2016 at 3:18 | comment | added | Dewi Morgan | It's perhaps worth mentioning that good wood-paneled walls have either no skirting, or a flush one. They also often have the feature that each panel's frame is plain on the bottom edge of the panel (it's just a flat bevel) for ease of dusting, rather than being all fancy. | |
| Jan 29, 2016 at 23:48 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackDIY/status/693219207354400772 | ||
| Jan 29, 2016 at 21:17 | comment | added | ArchonOSX | Well see! Problem solved. Time for another glass of wine. 🍷 | |
| Jan 29, 2016 at 18:33 | comment | added | Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight | @Tester101 They already exist. The one used by the cleaners in my office has a spinning brush on a forward corner that knocks and dust off the baseboard to be vacuumed. | |
| Jan 29, 2016 at 16:44 | answer | added | DA01 | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jan 29, 2016 at 15:41 | comment | added | alx9r | I've got skirting boards with a triangular cross-section here. You can clearly see the line where the top of the boards meet the wall, but the horizontal portion is so narrow it can't catch much dust and you certainly can't see the dust. | |
| Jan 29, 2016 at 15:17 | comment | added | JPhi1618 | On reading just the title, I thought people in the UK put the angled top of the base molding the other way around to specifically create a V-shaped dust channel. | |
| Jan 29, 2016 at 14:32 | comment | added | isherwood | Good-looking flush joints are difficult to achieve in any craft, and especially so with something as imprecise as drywall or plaster. | |
| Jan 29, 2016 at 13:55 | comment | added | Tester101 | I think you're trying to reinvent the wrong thing. Instead you should invent a vacuum cleaner, that vacuums the top of the skirting at the same time as the floor. | |
| Jan 29, 2016 at 13:41 | answer | added | TFK | timeline score: 16 | |
| Jan 29, 2016 at 12:57 | comment | added | Peter K. | There are recessed skirting boards around, but most of them leave a little notch at the top of the skirting, which is even harder to clean than standard skirting! | |
| Jan 29, 2016 at 11:51 | history | asked | MerlinMags | CC BY-SA 3.0 |