When it comes to Interior Design, your skirting boards and architrave might not be at the top of the list when it comes to your grand home designs, but freshly painted skirting boards can really add that finishing touch to your space and brighten up your room. This is also a great step to achieve a more updated and refreshed look without the need of replacing your skirting boards.
Video Tutorials: How To Fit Skirting Boards, Architrave and other Skirting 4 U Products.
We have a range of video guides which demonstrate how to fit our products including skirting board, skirting board covers, architrave, dado rails and picture rails.
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How To: Five Ways To Keep Your Skirting Boards Clean & Fresh
A simple guide to cleaning your skirting boards.
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How to Fit Plinth Blocks and Rosettes
Plinth blocks and rosettes are traditional, decorative transition pieces that enable easy and stylish joins between skirting boards and architrave. In this blog, we provide the important details you will need to know in order to fit these products successfully. Tools Required: Set Square Pencil Nail Gun Adhesive Tape Measure Mitre Saw For those who find it easier, here is a video guide on how to fit plinth blocks and rosettes: Plinth Block Placement If you have read our blog...
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Fixing Skirting Boards with Nails and Adhesive
We have already covered the majority of the processes of fitting new skirting boards in previous blog posts. This is a short additional blog post to offer more detail about how to fix the boards in position when they have been cut to size. The easiest and most popular method for fixing skirting boards in place is to use a combination of a grab adhesive with nails. Here is our video guide to fixing skirting boards with nails and adhesive: This guide assumes that the skirting board has...
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How to Remove Skirting Board
Removing your existing skirting board can seem like a daunting task if you have never done it before, but it is actually a fairly simple procedure. The only thing you have to focus on when you remove skirting board from a wall is that you don’t cause damage to the plaster in doing so. If you are concerned about damaging the plaster when you remove skirting board you might want to consider using a skirting board cover. We manufacture these special skirting boards that fit over your existing...
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How to measure up and order a window board
A simple guide to demonstrate how to make sure you order the correct size window board for your home.
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How to Fit Architrave When the Door Is Not Perfectly Square
Most often, internal doors are perfectly square, and this means you only need to cut standard 45-degree mitre joints into the architrave to properly install it. Sometimes, however, the door frame may not be perfectly square, which means in order to properly fit the architrave you will need to take additional steps to ensure that you cut the pieces of architrave to the correct angle, as a 45-degree mitre, in this case, will not produce the desired outcome. We've created a video guide to...
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How to Fit Architrave When the Door Frame is Close to the Wall
Sometimes internal doors are located so close to an adjoining wall that there isn’t enough space between the door frame and the wall to be able to install a standard width architrave. In some instances, you may decide to try and source a thinner architrave to surround the whole door, or as in this case, trim down one length of the architrave so that it fits in the gap. We've put together a video guide and this blog to showcase how to fit architrave when the door frame is close to the...
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How to Use Architrave to Create a Frame for Your Window
Installing a frame around a window is a great design statement that becomes a natural continuation of your chosen moulding style and helps bring different interior elements together more cohesively. We've prepared a video guide and a step by step guide below which shows you how to fit architrave around your window. To begin installing a window frame, you must first mark out where the architrave is to be positioned. To do this, grab a set square and pencil and make regular markings...
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How to Remove Architrave
Removing architrave is not a difficult job, however there are a few tips which can help reduce the damage to the wall. We've created a video guide and a step by step guide to removing architrave.