How to choose a plinth

Repair repair has already finished finishing the walls, ceiling and floor. It's time to start installing skirting boards. This last bar is so important that it is impossible to take a damnatorly. The floor skirting board not only closes the gap between the floor and the wall, but also transforms the appearance of the whole room. If it is selected incorrectly: too small or the wrong color, all the impressions of a beautiful modern repair may come to naught. But the right skirting board will be able to emphasize and strengthen all the advantages of the decoration and design of the room. How to choose the right skirting board, what to pay attention to, how much of the various types of skirting boards about this is our article.

1. How to choose the color of the skirting board
2. How to choose a skirting board size
3. How to choose a plinth material
4. Types of skirting boards from various materials
   • The skirting board is wooden
   • The skirting board is veneered
   • Skirting board from MDF
   • Plastic skirting
   • Ceramic plinth
   • Foam skirting board
   • Plintos from polyurethane
   • Aluminum skirting board

The choice of floor plinths can be tied to three different parameters: flooring, color and texture of the walls, color and texture of the door. As an exception, some design solutions allow or even intend to choose a skirting board contrasting with the color of the walls and floor. To make it really beautiful, you need to have a subtle sense of taste.

If you navigate your choice on the walls, then it is better to engage in the purchase of skirting boards after their finishing, then the resulting shade will be best seen. It will be easier to choose the necessary tone and not be mistaken.

When planning the flooring of a massive board, parquet or parquet board, a good solution would be to order wooden skirting boards from the same manufacturer as the floor for the floor. So you can be sure that the tree of the tree and the shade will match, and the differences will be minimal.

For edging floors from other coatings: linoleum, laminate, ceramic tiles, carpet and other skirting boards is selected after all work with floor and walls are completed.

The selection of a skirting board to the tone of the doors is the most difficult option, as it involves an individual design solution in advance. In this case, the skirting board must allocate, like a edging, a door frame and a floor.

How to choose the color of the skirting board

According to the generally accepted rule of the plinth are selected to the tone of the flooring. This excludes the possibility of mistaken and spoil the interior. Sometimes it is allowed to use the tone a little darker or lighter. The skirting board of the same tone with a floor merges with it into one and visually does not stand out in any way.

Modern design solutions allow you to choose a plinth in tone of wall decoration. Such innovation looks very organic and even gorgeous if the walls are painted or plastered in a uniform color. If the walls are glued with motley wallpaper, this option is not suitable.

Choose a plinth to the color of the doors It is only if they are wooden. The skirting board should tone the door platbands and have the same thickness.

In very rare cases, the skirting board is chosen to the color of furniture or interior details.

Relative innovation has become the use of white skirting boards. This really may look gorgeous, but it is necessary to take into account a lot of moments in which the combination of walls of walls, floor and furniture does not occupy the last place. To make the choice successful, you should draw the interior of the future room in the design or architectural program and play flowers.

Skirting board of contrasting colors bold decision. Here, too, you can’t do without preliminary sketches.

Please note that for a wooden floor, a skirting board is better to choose also wooden tone or tone darker than the floor. Other options will look simply ugly.

How to choose a skirting board size

The size for the skirting board dictates the height of the ceilings of the room, its volume and color solution of the floor and walls.

Categorically, do not use small thin skirting boards in large high rooms, they will disfigure and visually change the geometry of the room. Here, a wide and thin skirting board, attached exclusively to the wall and preferably contrasting or white, is more suitable.

If the room is too small with low overhanging ceilings, thin skirting boards to match the walls are suitable. As if continuing them, they will visually pull the room in height.

In standard rooms, you can use more or less standard dimensions of skirting boards, with a height of 45 to 70 mm.

How to choose a plinth material

The choice of material for the baseboard is completely attached to the type of flooring.

A massive board, parquet, parquet board and expensive laminate are combined with wooden skirting boards from an array.

For the laminate of medium and not very quality, a skirting board from MDF or veneered wooden are suitable.

For a floor covered with linoleum, laminate, jute, carpet, you can use MDF and PVC plinths (plastic). You can purchase a plastic baseboard with a special insert into which you can mount a piece of carpet or linoleum so that the skirting board does not differ in color from the floor.

Ceramic tiles go well only with correctly selected plastic and ceramic skirting boards.

Types of skirting boards from various materials

The days were sunk into oblivion when the choice of skirting boards was reduced to only one single version of a wooden, standard shape, color and size. Today's market allows you to choose this element from different materials, shapes, colors, and it is even possible to order an individual curved skirting board that repeats the contours of any decorative element in the room.

The skirting board is wooden

Wooden skirting boards are made from an array of wood. They are absolutely natural and environmentally friendly, they are easy to fix them, cut to the required size, amenable to repair and dismantling. Among the shortcomings, only sensitivity to high humidity can be distinguished, which imposes certain restrictions on the premises in which they can be used. It is worth excluding a bathroom, a toilet and a kitchen.

The most common and cheap material for wooden skirting boards is pine. Even the highest class itself is a pine skirting board for 2.25 3.25 cu And more economical options will cost 0.75 cu. for 1 m. Pog.

More expensive skirting boards are linden and oak. Lipa at least will cost 2.5 cu. But the price for an oak massive baseboard can reach 5 8 cu or more.

A little less often they use cherries, ash, alder, maple, tick, beech, pear, walnut, birch and others.

Fans of exotic can turn their eyes to products made of red and black wood, acacia, Merbau, Dusia and others.

When buying a wooden baseboard, pay attention to the class of wood and other characteristics of the product. Sometimes you can find a skirting board from pine or oak for completely funny money 0.18 0.2 cu for 1 m. Pog. Such a low price is due to the fact that the product is not made of an array of wood, but has one, two or more malls along the canvas. Sometimes a marriage or just a large number of knots can be a reason.

The most expensive pleasure will be to order a skirting board on an individual project that will repeat the contours and bends of the element in the interior. Its cost will be in the region of 50 cu for 1 m. Pog.

The most correct solution would be to order and purchase wooden skirting boards from the same manufacturer from which they ordered the floor or flooring of wood. So you can be sure that the color is perfect.

Choosing a baseboard separately in the store, it is difficult to navigate in color. The fact is that they are sold without paintwork and after applying varnish or wax will change the shade. In this case, you can draw on the surface of an unprocessed baseboard with a wet sponge, the resulting shade will be as close as possible to open varnish.

The skirting board is veneered

The veneered baseboard also belongs to wooden, but is not made of an array of wood. The basis is pine or spruce, and the top is covered (veneered) with wood of more expensive species: oak, pears, bamboo, nut, acacia and others. Shades can be very diverse, so you can choose for every taste.

The price of extended skirting boards depends on the veneer material and varies in the range of 4.5 5.5 cu.

Previously, it was impossible to stretch the cable in a wooden skirting board, today a skirting board from an array or veneer with a cable channel is successfully made.

Skirting board from MDF

Such skirting boards are most often used to edged floors covered with laminate, linoleum or carpet, while the walls are also finished with MDF panels. They are made of compressed wood fibers with the addition of binders

The skirting boards from MDF do not burn out in the sun, they are not afraid of moisture and dirt. Prices in the range from 2 to 3 cu

You can fix the PLNTUS MDF on glue to the wall, like wooden ones. And you can use liquid nails or special clips. The hooks-slopes are attached to the wall, the baseboard is tightly planted on them. The end sections and corner compounds are closed with plastic plugs to the tone of the skirting board. Fastening on the brackets allows you to remove the baseboard and use it again without damaging.

Plastic skirting

Such a skirting board is made of foamed PVC and is not environmentally friendly. Therefore, it is also used complete with unnatural flooring: linoleum, laminate and carpet. Less commonly with ceramic tiles.

The floor plastic skirting board is very popular now, as it is practical and cheap. The product can have a different shape, color and shade, which allows you to choose a skirting board for every taste.

Such skirting boards are not afraid of moisture and dirt, unleashed rot and corrosion, but less durable and durable than wooden.

On end ends and corner compounds, special plastic plugs and elements are used. A significant disadvantage is an inaccurate coincidence of the shade of the baseboard itself and plugs.

Plastic skirting boards are fixed with self -tapping screws to the wall. At the same time, nothing is visible on the front side, since the internal sash is fixed, which then covers the front. The dimensions of PVC skirting boards can be very different and, accordingly, the cable channels that make in them are of different volumes: sometimes for only one television cable, and sometimes you can make a whole bunch of wires, and even separated by partitions.

The price of plastic skirting boards from 0.9 - 1 cu, plus additional elements each for 0.37 cu

Ceramic plinth

More recently, such a thing was not at all. If a floor is required from ceramic tiles, it was made of the same tile, only cut into the necessary pieces. At the same time, the edge of the cut was always not very even and aesthetic.

Today, a ceramic skirting board most often comes with tiles, this must be asked from the manager before buying. It is always adjusted to the size of the tile and corresponds to it by color. You can choose a plinth and separately, of a different size and shade.

An indispensable accessory is a ceramic skirting board for the bathroom. They framed the space between the wall laid tile, and the bathroom. Such a baseboard has an unusual shape of a concave hemisphere and looks very aesthetically pleasing.

The price of ceramic skirting boards begins with 4 5 cu for 1 mg.

Foam skirting board

Such skirting boards are ceiling. They can have a different shape, sometimes even very intricate and embossed, as required by the design of the room. Made of polyvinyl chloride. The easiest option is a bar, which must be glued to the corner of the joint between the wall and the ceiling. Glaces are easily cut, but still it is worth purchasing it with a margin.

It is not possible to use foam plinths for the floor due to their fragility, yet they perform a purely decorative function.

The price scatter is very large: from 0.3 cu Up to 4 cu per 1 m.

Plintos from polyurethane

Polyurethane skirting boards are rather elements of decor than practical products. This material allows you to create a variety of decorative elements resembling real stucco molding or other material.

Such a skirting board is light in weight, is not afraid of moisture, fungus, household chemicals and mechanical damage, durable and easily mounted. It can be painted in any color, and it is fixed with glue.

The price of a plinth of polyurethane bites: starts with 18 22 cu for 1 m. Pog.

Aluminum skirting board

Such skirting boards are mainly used due to the fact that they are all made with the cable channels. At the same time, they are made of anodized aluminum, which provides unique strength and durability. An aluminum cable skirting board is installed in medical facilities, stations, enterprises and other public premises, as well as in household premises, for example, in the kitchen.

The material is not afraid of water and aggressive media, including detergents, which means that he is able to protect the power cables laid in it. Also aluminum skirting booths are and exceptionally beautiful. Used in high-tech style interiors. On the ends and corner compounds, special plugs are used. The baseboard itself is attached to the wall with dowels.

The price of aluminum skirting boards and rapids starts from 5 cu for 1 m. Pog.

To make the right choice of skirting boards, be patient. It is better to go to the store several times, double -check everything: both color and size than then regret that they hastened with the purchase. A good option, if in doubt, will purchase several different skirting samples and already indoise them in the room. So you can avoid error.