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Where to find replacement high period skirting boards

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:23 pm
by cw278
We have recently replaced a fire and surround in a period property and there is now a gap at each side of the skirting board of about 4 inches. Does anyone know where we could find some high period skirting board to replace or patch at each side of the fire?

I live in the Teesside area but could travel.

Thanks

Chris

Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 3:14 pm
by DUDE DIY
Try any local timer merchants. Theres an excellent one I know of in newcastle, near the arena called tyneside timber. You could smiply fill a shorter piece of skirting from the bottom with a plain piece of wood to make up the height.

Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 9:45 pm
by blackcat
you should try a reclaim merchant must be some inyour area try a take an old piece of skirting with you
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Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:58 pm
by canny
Use either a plank of wood or a stripe of mdf to create the flat face of the skirting, then fix a matching profile timber like ogee etc to the top. These profile timbers are normally fixed around door frames and are called mouldings.This is a cheap way of making old style skirting. :D