How would you hide these heating pipes?

[thirteenbooks]

Our radiator pipes sit on top of the skirting board. They can't be chased into the wall, but I'd like to hide them somehow... because they are a nightmare to clean

Looked into the skirting board covers, but the pipe comes out 35mm from the wall. Any clever ideas welcome!

I would fit rebated skirting boards

@Proudboomer, the only ones I've been able to find have a max rebate of 25mm, so aren't deep enough, sadly (which is a shame, because I found some really nice ones...)

Could you add a strip of wood along the back of the top of the rebate skirting boards to make them deep enough?

You can get plastic conduit, we put some to cover 2 pipes coming down a wall and put some on an outside wall to carry armoured electrical cable.

A good chippie would be able to adjust the back of a rebated skirting board to give extra depth.

You can get MDF pipe boxing in a variety of sizes, and cut the length to fit. We had these pipes through our flat, and the boxing looks much smarter.