Do You Need Skirting Boards With Carpet

This video will show you how to paint baseboards or skirting boards on carpet there is a little trick to doing it.

Do you need skirting boards with carpet.

Even in italy spiritual home of minimalists and marble floors they have skirting board and they call it battiscopa roughly translates as where the broom hits. 5 x research source then place the masking tape along where the skirting board meets the floor leaving a slight lip about 1 2 cm 0 20 in that is pressed. C h rasmussen london w4. Leave the masking tape down if re applying a coat if you notice that you are going to need multiple coats that s usually the case to get the best finish possible.

On any lengths of the gripper that you will be glueing down remove the pins and secure them to the floor. You don t need skirting boards we used to have 2 bed unit in sydney built 70 s it didn t have skirting boards and was carpeted and from memory the door frames were flat metal. Paint the skirting boards once you have the masking tape down you can safely paint around the room avoiding any paint reaching the carpet for the best finish possible. 8 once you have masked up you can then paint the skirting boards without getting paint onto your carpet or hard flooring.

The ceiling was the difficult bit with it s plaster swirls. 9 if you are getting rid of the carpet you can cut a 2 gap around the edge of the carpet so you can paint right down to the bottom of the skirting board. If you re working with a shorter kind of carpet insert a putty knife in the space between the carpet and the skirting board at an angle to push the carpet away from the wall.