Covering existing skirting boards

[Kathyw]

Is there a upvc (or any other) type of skirting board that can just be stuck onto existing skirting boards please?

[robgraham]

Well no one else has asked ---- why? What's wrong with the existing and why can't it just be removed ?

Rob

[Bruce]

I think most people would recoil at the thought of covering up an existing skirting board with ... of all things ... UPVC.

[RW]

Try here.......they might be able to help

[PCPaul]

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I don't get why everybody is being so mean about this one.. sure uPVC isn't the nicest material but thousands of offices have uPVC trunking as skirting and dado rails without problems, it would only take nicer edges to make it acceptable in a house.

Kathy, try this sort of thing:

You will find it's not at all cheap though - taking the old skirting off and replacing it with prepainted MDF or timber skirting isn't a huge job for a local handyman if you can find one.

...or DIY, obviously...

[Bruce]

Nylon shirts, polyester ties, crimplene trousers, plastic belts, inflatable plastic furniture, melamine crockery ...

... and UPVC skirtings. ;-)

[Rod]

Few (if any) special skirting trunking options remain available. Can't remember the details but the dado version is often the only one now available.

[teddysnips]

I don't know if this will help, but in our last house the ground floor hallway had quarry tiles as skirtings. Horrible, they looked. I covered them with zinc flashing, which I glued and screwed, and very nice they looked too (or so the various people who looked around the house thought when we sold it). All you need are some tinsnips, Gripfil, zinc-plated screws and washers, and a way of scoring the zinc before you fold it.