The stunning skirting boards

[BourbonBon]

Shopping for skirting boards this morning and the bloke in the shop showed us this beading that you put on top of the floor and up to the skirting boards.

He said “have you thought about using these? They look stunning when done against skirting boards”

Stunning. As anyone ever been stunned by someone else’s skirting boards?

YABU - yes, I have on occasion gone into someone’s house and almost fainted at their amazing skirting boards

YANBU - no, it was a stupid thing to say and you’re right to still be annoyed about it hours later

I think you're taking the word too literally.

I don't think he expects anyone to leap backwards in stunned excitement on sight of one.

He's just saying that they look really good. With a bit of hyperbole because he's a salesman.

We need to see pictures now!

But you didnt walk into someones house, you walked into a shop that was selling the skirting boards.
ps. I havent got a clue was beading you are talking about - a picture would be useful.

I had to look it up. I had no idea that bit had a name all of its own.

If pixies broke in overnight and changed all my skirting boards, I probably wouldn't notice. Maybe mine are stunning, amazing and unbelievable too.

No! I had to google beading. It turns out there is beading on my skirting boards. It can't be very stunning because I've lived here two years and never noticed it before.

Not a fan of that beading. Skirting boards look better when laid over the floor, no need for beading.

Rather hyberbolic to be fuming, hours later, about the vocabulary choices of a floor salesman. At most, you are slightly irritated, I should think.

I’m stunned by how much this has annoyed you.

Me too, @MeinKraft and I never knew. It's not tape, just a smooth wooden sort of join. Never paid attention before.

I hear you OP, it's hyperbole

I'm curious - but my guess is the skirting boards look like...skirting boards?

I was imagining a row of little beads which sounded pretty garish, had to google it to work it out. I've now noticed I have that in some rooms and not in others. Much prefer without! (So really good to know you don't need it if you lay the floor first, I need to redo the floor so looks like I can get rid of the beading, stunning or otherwise.)

I helped to make ours. They're hand made in our workshop. I searched for hours to find the right router bit to make the shape i wanted. i bought it at axminster tools. it cost a bloody fortune. we made a jig for the router. it took hours. every time we make more skirting i have to run so that i don't allow it to stop and make a mark in the skirting length that will take time to remove.

Perhaps we've disappeared up our own arses on skirting but it will look bloody STUNNING when it's finished.

so YABU

I hate the skirting boards in my hall, stairs and landing. They were put in as cheap repairs following bomb damage in the war.
They are very visible and look awful.
They will be going in the next year or so when I have the hall, stairs and landing replastered.
I fully intend to have deep, stunning skirting boards

I once overheard someone at the hair dressers describing the can of coke the hairdresser gave her as 'stunning'. Right. Ok.

Beading never looks stunning, it always looks like a cheap alternative to a job done right (skirting removed before floor laid)

But skirting can look stunning, my brother is in an older house and has detailed feature skirting boards in his large hallway that are several inches high, boldly painted and the main stand out feature of the hallway.

Bashing into the skirting would definitely be stubbing rather than stunning. Maybe he ‘misused’ the word. And that’s another annoying word…YADNBU.

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Yep
Me
Obsessed with joinery
Wouldnt do add on bits on the top of skirtings though, bit fake
I do walk around properties and click what the skirtings and architraves are like.
If I don’t like them it affects how I feel about it, ie whether I will buy.
Doing up properties I can’t stand mean ( not wide) joinery.

But I am an architect, it’s a sort of excuse
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I asked the guys laying our wooden floor to take off the skirting boards before they put it down, they insisted it didn't need to be done. They put down that bloody horrible beading, which makes me angry every time I look at it. They were just being lazy, I wish I'd never agreed to it.

This is hilarious, and so snobby. I bet very few people actually choose their skirting board; it’s just in the house when you move in.

My house doesn’t look “cheap and basic” because of the shite skirting board, it looks cheap and basic because we are 😂. It would also look bloody stupid with wanky chamfered skirting boards, as it’s a 20 year old shoddily built terraced box, not a stately home.

I've always thought of policemen's truncheons (not a euphemism!) as being quite stunning.

@usernamenotaccepted

Is that basically duct tape? I have to admit, I am stunned.

They are 48cm tall and curved in the corners.

Bloody hell, you need to get out more

@Igniteyourbones those are stunning skirting boards. 😂

I'd have to change the socket though.

That's literally not what that beading is for. You use that beading if you put the skirting on first and then do the flooring after. Because the flooring needs expansion gaps which you would normally have against the wall and then the skirting covers the gap. But if you put the skirting down first, then you have to have an expansion gap against the skirting board which you then cover with the beading. It looks so much better without the beading and means the joiner or floor fitter has done a proper job.