How to choose a skirting board for a laminate

Repair goes to the finish line. Laminate flooring and wallpaper. It remains to "remove the cream" - set the baseboard. It is designed to protect the ends of the laminate from dust and moisture, facilitate cleaning of the premises, decorate cable routes. The decorative component is also important.

Choosing a laminate skirting board

The skirting board should be in harmony with the walls and floor in both color and material. If the repair in the house is thought out and implemented in a design project, you won’t have to worry about the choice. But if repairs occur on their own or in a single room, then there are a few tips on how to choose the right baseboard.

Color selection

It is better to think about the color of the molding at the stage of choosing wallpaper and laminate. The size of the room plays a significant role. The material is selected depending on what needs to be emphasized in the room, floor or wall.

Conventionally, designs can be divided into dark and light.

Reference! When choosing a skirting board, consider that light tones visually increase the room, and dark tones hide.

Some color selection rules:

1. For a small room, the baseboard should be in tone with the laminate.
2. For a room with low ceilings - in tone with the walls to visually raise the ceiling.
3. A good taste is the combination of the color of baseboards and door trim.

If there is no time and desire to choose the color of the decorative strip for other components of the room, then a win-win option is to buy a laminate and a plinth in one place of the same color. To get a custom color, there are planks for painting.

Attention! Light elements get dirty easily, and on dust too dark every speck of dust is visible.

Material selection

For the laminate, structures made of wood, solid or veneered, plastic or MDF, are suitable.

Tree. Structures made of wood are durable, environmentally friendly and aesthetic. Of the minuses, it bends relatively badly. Therefore, if there are curved elements of the decor in the room, you will have to refuse the tree. This also includes the high price for natural material and the need for additional processing.

MDF. The bar is covered with a special film. The advantages include low cost, moisture resistance and a variety of colors. Of the minuses - the fragility, the high possibility of damage during transportation and installation.

Plastic. Material - PVC, the most common for the manufacture of skirting boards.

PVC models are characterized by a relatively low cost, a wide variety of colors, moisture resistance, flexibility, resistance to temperature changes, the presence of cable channels.

The downside of plastic is fragility. Certain instructions must be followed during installation and operation.

Size options for the material are not as many as the color. The standard length is 2.5m. This is due to the convenience of transportation and storage. The width of the molding should exceed the gap between the wall and the edge of the laminate. According to recommendations, this is not less than 10 mm. The height must be chosen, taking into account the area of ​​the room, the height of the walls and the color of the interior.

It is recommended to install a low baseboard in a room with a small area, and in a room with 3-meter ceilings, high ones with a variety of fillets are perfect.

There are several ways to fix the structure depending on the material:

1. Dowels.
2. With the help of special accessories (trims, clips).
3. On glue or liquid nails.

Important! The bar must be fixed exclusively to the wall, since the floor covering moves from fluctuations in temperature and humidity in the room.

To choose which one will look better, the baseboard to the laminate is not as difficult as it seems at first glance. The main thing is to get creative.