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How To Do An External Mitre On Skirting Boards External Mitres are very handy when it comes to joining up your skirting boards. Joining your skirting boards to adjacent skirting is very important and allows the room to flow and look tidy too. There’s nothing worse than having your new skirting ruined by a poor or rough joining job. Of course, unlike internal mitres, external mitres are on the outside of a wall, rather than t… Read more

Generally speaking, most people will choose an  architrave to match their skirting. Luckily enough, we have matching architraves for all of our skirting designs. When you land on our architrave product pages, you’ll be met with 4 drop down boxes. They contain over 10 different options to choose from. An option from each dropdown box must be selected before you can add the architrave to the cart. Now, we’re going to exp… Read more

What Is MDF? MDF is a man-made board and it stands for 'Medium Density Fibreboard'. It is often found in products like furniture for your home. MDF is manufactured using wood fibres that are gathered from hardwoods and softwoods that have been broken down. High temperatures and pressures are used along with waxes and resins to bind the wood fibres together and make the  sheets of MDF that we use to create our skirt… Read more

We Have Lots Of Designs To Choose From Here at Skirting World Ltd, we have a lot of skirting board profile designs to choose from. Common Designs In The UK You may have seen some of them before like Ogee, Torus and Bullnose as these are pretty common designs for the industry. They are readily available from most large DIY outlets and we also produce them. This is because a lot of customers end up having some kind of wor… Read more