9" skirting board please help!!

[Gibby106141]

Please help!!!

Does anyone know of an online store, (or any store for that matter) that sells a 9" skirting board, it can't be 9" made up of of a 7 + 2, it must be a 9 beacuse of the gap between the floor and the plaster.

Any help anyone could offer would be greatly appreciated.

Regards

Mark

 

[big-all]

you glue the parts together so they act as one

dont forget you loose around 6mm per bit of wood so you will finnish up at either 8 1/2 or 9 1/2" finnished sizes

 

[Gibby106141]

Big All,

Thanks for that, but because of the gap I have to fill I cant join two sizes together my joiner has basically refused to do that and wants me to get a 9" board.

Mark

 

[big-all]

its standard practice to glue two bits together

the only possible problem is if the woods a different thickness !!!

9" isnt advisable as its likley to cup

what profile you after !!!

 

[Symptoms]

Mark - how thick, moulding at the top or plain, will they be painted or left natural?


You can get 225mm or 8.8" (nominal, so in reality will be say 5mm smaller) x 22, 25, 32mm thick, also available is 275mm or 10.8" (nominal) x 32mm; obviously got from a decent timber merchant.

So your solution is to go for 275mm x 32mm, get the timber yard reduce the thickness in their planer/thicknesser to what you need, the width reduced on their table saw. To avoid big-all's cupping problem get the rear face of the boards grooved length-wise.

Of course, if they're going to be painted then one option is to use MDF cut to size.