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RE: Hollow skirting boards?


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  • Subject: RE: Hollow skirting boards?
  • From: "Chris Bond" <chris@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 21:09:54 -0000
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Yup that'd be cool....

-----Original Message-----
From: Des Gibbons [mailto:des@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 06 November 2002 9:03 PM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Hollow skirting boards?

Any photos Colin?

Cheers, Des.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin Bradford [mailto:colin@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 20:47
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Hollow skirting boards?
>
>
> On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Matt P. wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > We're about to move to a new flat and since we need to rip out the
> > existing skirting boards to fit the flooring I was thinking that
> > surely there must be hollow ones where you can run all your cat5
(on-
> > topic now!) cables and other stuff?  A quick google didn't reveal
> > anything apart from some American products, including one that has
> > flaps so you can access the internals without taking it apart at the
> > seams, so to speak.
> >
> > Has anyone seen or used anything like this here in the UK?
>
> Yes. The one I've got is made by Marshall Tufflex, and is a 3
> compartment trunking system.  It's quite small, so the bends are a
> little tight for cat5, but it looks just like plastic skirting board -
> many people don't realise it's not normal wooden skirting until it's
> pointed out to them.  It's two parts - the front clips on to the back
> part, which is screwed to the wall.  A couple of tips:
>
> - make sure you mount it high enough up the wall so that the carpet
goes
> under it - otherwise you can't remove the front
>
> - mitre the corners properly. The installers who did my house didn't,
> and as a result I can't pull cables round the corners - I have to
remove
> all the fronts to install a new cable.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Colin.
>
>
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