Hi Posted a few queries about skirting earlier.
My house currently has 5cm high skirting and was built circa 1950.
I'm replacing this with 10cm skirting.
Why do a lot of people who replied find 10cm a strange height and recommend 17+ cm Torus (7")skirting and also ask me if its an old house (how old is old)?
Just wondering
'Cos they haven't read your article carefully?
Small skirting is in general fairly modern - the overall look of the interior is what really dictates what skirting to use. In a smaller, lower-roomed modern house, big skirtings look clumsy and artificial. In a big house, normal "big" skirting would be lost, hence in large old buildings one may find skirtings two or times that!
From the perspective of "big" v. "small" skirtings, I should say that "old" is '30-'40s and earlier.
In this Victorian house it's 50 cm (ish) in the 'public' rooms.
Skirting throughout my 1936 house is 7 inches.
Because skirting board designs are chronological - or so my builder told me, anyway. My Victorian mid-terraced (built in 1874) uses 7" Torus and Lambs Tongue skirting came along in the 1920's or 1930's (don't know about any others).
John.
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