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I have a passionate hate for tiny badly fitted skirting, and architraves that just do not meet or match the skirting. So I tend to draw what I want from the start, solid nicely profiled timber edges to the floor / wall interface, because thats what the skirting is, an interface between the floor and wall, it allows the carpet or floor finish to be fitted without damaging the wall, it allows carpet cleaners to operate with damaging the wall, it hides cracks, it allows wall paper to finish on a straight edge, must I go on, but above all it makes the wall.

Where ever I am I look at skirtings, do they work, do they look good, often I cringe, large gaps have appeared between the floor and skirting, due to the floor flexing, not good. I recently went to a large stately manor and noticed that a small tongue had been added to the bottom of the skirting, that fitted into a small grove in the timber floor, allowing the floor to move without showing a crack, nice, hence the second skirting in the picture, taken from my steves bits file,

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