PVC skirting board: advantages and disadvantages.
Substitus from foamed polyvinyl chloride is the main competitors of wooden, thanks to such properties as high resistance to moisture, corrosion and rotting. The plastic skirting board is not deformed at sharp temperature differences, it is wear -resistant and throughout the service life will not change its initial forms and sizes.
Such skirting boards can be placed in any rooms, including with a high level of humidity: bathroom, kitchen, veranda and loggia. Also, in the “piggy bank” plus boards of PVC skirting boards, it is also added that in our technological age in a special groove of a plastic skirting board you can hide an unlimited number of wires and cables.
Of the minuses of PVC skirting boards, it is not such high strength and durability as in wooden skirting boards, as well as the need to use special elements: plugs and angles – which significantly reduce the aesthetic type of skirting board.
You can easily install a plastic skirting board yourself. Moreover, PVC skirting boards are easily dismantled and mounted back, thanks to special mounting technologies and accessories. The seller will help you choose various auxiliary elements: external, internal, end and docking corners, fixing clips. All of them facilitate the installation of skirting boards, their docking in the corners. The huge advantage of PVC skirting boards is that they should not be cut for joining in the corners. It is known that even if you cut exactly 45 degrees on both plates of the skirting board, it is not the fact that they come up well in the corner, because it is not the fact that the Russian corner of the house is 90 degrees. In general, auxiliary elements created specifically for plastic skirting boards will save you from such problems.
PVC skirting boards are sold completely ready for installation. They do not need to be additionally processed. Plastic skirting boards have a smooth surface, unlike a rough and sometimes jagged wooden.
It is easy to care for PVC skirting boards, it is enough simple wiping with conventional means. At the same time, the color of the plinth will not change and will not fade.
PVC skirting boards cannot be used for exterior decoration of buildings, at a temperature below 5 degrees, they become too fragile and are easily deformed.
A special groove for cables and wires mentioned above allows you to hide these same cables and wires. At the same time, in order to get the wire and hide it, you do not need to resort to the dismantling of the entire skirting board, just pull out the lid of the cable channel.
PVC skirting boards are combined with laminate, linoleum and carpet. It is better not to use them with parquet coatings, because plastic is significantly reduced to the appearance of the interior. Plastic skirting boards are suitable for both residential premises and commercial. In general, with all the obviousness we can say that the future is for plastic, because the manufacture of PVC skirting boards does not entail wood cutting down.