How to bend a floor skirting board. How to bend a plastic skirting board

At the moment we are making skirting boards in 4 colors (wenge, oak, maple, mahogany)

If you need a small amount of plinth, we can try to pick up from the remains of those flowers that were made earlier or to order (oak, cherry, beech, mahogany, maple, pine, pear)

Pear Oak Cherry Beech Mahogany Maple Wenge (under the order) Pine

!!! When ordering from 50 pieces of plinth, a discount of 50 rubles per stick.

* Attention! Baseboard colors may appear differently on different monitors ...

Price list for flexible skirting boards

Name Material Size mm Length mm Price per stick To order
1 Skirting board Wood plastic 50 2500 RUB 600
2 Skirting board Wood plastic 60 2500 RUB 700
3 Skirting board Wood plastic 70 2500 RUB 800

NOTE - To obtain wenge color, we paint the skirting board with a special heat-resistant paint - execution 5 working days. The cost of painting one plaka plinth in wenge color is 300 rubles.


We produce skirting boards in 3 design options:

* 50mm high. The skirting boards and the bottom of this one are symmetrical. Floor overlap about 25mm
* 60mm high. Its shape is as close as possible to conventional plastic skirting boards. Floor overlap about 17mm
* 70mm high. The most stylish of our line, more like a border. Floor overlap about 10mm.

Our skirting board is easy to use. It adheres well, is sawn and planed. Such a plinth, like a regular wooden one, is fastened with nails or on, so it will not be difficult for you to lay it indoors. It is non-flammable and unaffected by moisture. Therefore, our company invites you to make a choice in favor of plastic, which looks no less aesthetically pleasing than natural wood. You will also be delighted with the affordable prices for such a skirting board.
When installing on curved walls, the skirting board should be heated to +70 degrees Celsius and bent along the desired radius or curve. After cooling, it will become tough, completely retaining its given shape. You can bend with an industrial hair dryer.

Plastic skirting boards are used to give a finished look to the following floor coverings: laminate, linoleum and carpets. Indoors, a plastic skirting board fits into the interior as organically as a wooden one. The flexible pvc skirting board we offer is manufactured in accordance with international standards and norms for building materials. In addition, you will be pleasantly surprised by the availability of prices for our plastic flexible skirting board.

Flexible floor plinth for columns and not only in composite material

Many people during renovation often ask themselves the question "how to bend the print"?
If you are looking for a flexible skirting board, then our only solution is our composite wood-filled skirting board. The cost of our skirting board is much lower than its wooden counterparts, but its consumer properties are superior to them. If you turn a flexible wooden plinth into a bendable one, or most of all you need to bend it, then such a pleasure will cost you at least 3000 rubles per meter and quite a long time for its manufacture and installation. By the way, the cost of installation by specialists will cost at least 2500-3000 rubles per one running meter, for example, a wooden plinth for columns.

A revolutionary solution in the field of interior design is our flexible plintflex skirting board costing from 140 to 180 rubles per linear meter. Ease of use makes it easy to stack. It is easy and simple to bend the plintflex skirting board, using a simple industrial non-professional hair dryer with a capacity of 1000 watts (or a regular hair dryer for drying hair) it is heated in the place where it is necessary to make a fold, softening it to a state of free vibration. Then it is applied to the bending surface, allowing it to cool for 1.5 minutes. Having cooled down, the bending skirting board remains in the shape that was given to it. Then it is glued with glue liquid nails to the surface of the wall.

Flexible skirting board can be tinted and painted after bending in any colors and shades with varnishes and paints for wooden surfaces.

Many people are looking for a way to go around a column with a plinth, to lay the plinth in an arc in the bay window, and the only solution is to use the plintflex bending plinth for this.

Whatever they say, but these plastic skirting boards with cable channels look like a cheap solution for apartments not for your loved ones. All these plugs, corners, docking elements that fly off from the light touch of the vacuum cleaner fall off from time to time, and generally do not look aesthetically pleasing at all. They are a collection of dust and dirt. Needless to say, a cheap solution for a cheap interior!

We sell our flexible skirting board for a little more than a plastic hollow skirting board, but installing it even on flat, straight surfaces you will get an exceptionally stylish framing of surfaces in your room. Durable, moisture resistant and can be bent as you like - your imagination is now unlimited!

Plastmir invites you to opt for our skirting board. Today, PVC plastic skirting board is an innovative product used in the field of interior decoration. The skirting board is made of a composite material that combines the best consumer qualities of plastic and the naturalness of wood. High-quality soft skirting board is not susceptible to the destructive effects of ultraviolet radiation, solvents and moisture, does not ignite and has a very low weight. All this is achieved due to the use for its manufacture of a special chemical composition - foamed polyvinyl chloride.

Our skirting board is made of a complex wood-filled plastic composite material.
Designed for framing any surfaces of any radius of curvature.
When joining, seams are sealed with sawing material (shavings-powder) of the plinth itself - after grinding, the joint is absolutely invisible already from a distance of 1 meter. Fixing to walls can be done in any traditional way, similar to fixing wooden plinths (nails, screws). The drowning places of the self-tapping screws can be masked with the same shavings from the baseboard itself.


In modern apartments and houses, corners are often not straight, but rounded. This makes the installation of the plinth somewhat difficult. However, there are special technologies by which you can bend both a wooden and a rigid plastic or even foam model.

In addition, a flexible floor or ceiling skirting board made of soft plastic, polyurethane and even rubber is being sold today. If you don't want to bother with bending the planks, you can purchase just such an option or order a radius one.

How to bend a skirting board?

So, you do not want to use flexible polyurethane floor skirting boards or a model made of some other similar elastic material, but prefer to install a regular wooden or plastic one. In this case, the manufacture of a semicircular version for the floor is usually entrusted to a specialist. However, you can try to round off the desired bar yourself.

Rounded decor is used for installation on curved walls

How to round wood planks

In order to bend a wooden strip, it is pre-steamed. Water is poured into a basin and put on fire. The plank should be warmed up and steamed over a stream of steam for half an hour. How to bend wood skirting boards:

  1. You can round off the bar by hanging it and securing some kind of load on both sides;
  2. Sometimes a special device is used:

You can round off the element using a special device.

  1. You can also attach two blocks to the floor at a certain distance from each other and insert a strip of wood between them.
Important: Use the utmost care when using this method. If one of the ends of the element slides out of the support, it will fly off and could injure you.

How to round off a very hard wood skirting board? In this case, the plank will most likely have to be cut into several pieces, fix them on the wall and mount transitions between them.

If you cannot bend the skirting board, cut it into pieces.

How to round a hard plastic model

Now let's see how to bend a plastic skirting board. You can round it off using the technology described above for a tree. Sometimes they also use a slightly different method. In this case, notches are made on the reverse side of the bar. Then it is warmed up with a construction hairdryer.

The plastic model can be rounded in the same way as the wooden one.

Important: The heated strip must be rounded off and immediately put in place, without waiting for the material to cool. In doing so, be careful not to break it.

How to bend a fillet for a ceiling

If you do not want to use flexible ceiling skirting boards, you can try to bend the foam or polystyrene foam.

The semicircular ceiling plinth also has to be used quite often.

The foam baguette does not really need to be bent, but very carefully rounded, squeezing in small areas. After the non-flexible, fragile fillet takes the desired shape, it is coated with glue and pressed tightly to the wall surface, securing it with small nails for reliability.

You can bend the foam model by gently crushing along the length

In order to make it clearer how to round off the foam, we suggest you watch this video:

How to make a plinth in a semicircle if the bending arc has a too small radius? At the same time, a fillet made of foam plastic, like a wooden one, is cut into several pieces, which are mounted at a curved angle.

Pieces of foam fillet

Important: The joints between the pieces must be covered with putty or white silicone sealant. Next, the seams are carefully sanded. The resulting radius skirting board can be painted with white or colored paint.

Flexible floor and ceiling decor

It is still quite difficult to round off the plinth at home, without having a certain experience. It is easier to complement the floor finish using a flexible skirting board.

The flexible skirting board, floor or ceiling, is easy to bend

There are several varieties of them:

  1. Rubber. May have very bright colors;
  2. Cork flexible;
  3. Soft flexible PVC skirting board. It will work very well for a round wall. It is sold wound on a bobbin;
  4. Liquid tree. After some time after installation on a curved surface, it hardens, retaining the resulting shape.
  5. Flexible polyurethane skirting board. It can have a variety of colors. A flexible paintable polyurethane version is also available.

Flexible polyurethane ceiling skirting board is very easy to bend

How exactly to mount the plinth at a corner, if it is rounded, or on a column, of course, you decide. If you are confident in your abilities, buy a regular hard decor and try to bend it. If you don't have enough experience, get flexible skirting boards for the floor or ceiling.

More and more modern renovation deviates from the standards. Simple urban style is replaced by sleeker and more flexible design solutions... Straight lines give way to curvilinear, smooth, rounded shapes, so there is a need for new technologies for interior decoration.

Facing materials can be very different, but it is difficult to imagine a renovated space without skirting boards; this decoration element is undoubtedly indispensable in any interior. In the article we will tell you what is flexible and, and how to bend a skirting board from different materials do it yourself.

Flexible ceiling skirting board allows you to finish complex rounded shapes

Possibilities

  • We warm up the molding so that the lintels remaining in the cuts become flexible. We conduct heating carefully, from the back of the molding. We make sure that the outer side does not deform from high temperatures.
  • When the baguette is well warmed up and flexible, it should be folded gently but quickly. The plastic cools down rather quickly, so you shouldn't hesitate at this stage.


Flexible skirting board. This effect is achieved by heating the plastic.

We make semicircular wooden baguettes

But here everything is more complicated. Cuts cannot be done, and the method that we propose to use will allow you to bend the profile quite a bit. However, if you only need to adjust the skirting board to fit uneven wall, then this option will do just fine.

First, we prepare the spacers for the wood profile. To do this, take a board, draw a semicircle of the future bend on it. Now on both sides of the line we fasten or nail the spacers themselves. Long nails, for example, can serve as them. You can also come up with some kind of your own version. The spacers repeat the future semicircle of the profile, and are staggered, as in the diagram below.


Spacers required to make the skirting board semi-circular

Now we need to steam the baguette to make the plinth for the ceiling or floor flexible and give it a semicircular shape. The easiest way is to boil a pot of water on the stove and hold the profile over it. How long it takes for the molding to become flexible depends on the type of wood. This moment can be determined by touch; when you try to bend the profile, it will begin to give in.

After the wood has steamed and becomes flexible, remove it from the steam and put it in the semicircle of the spacers that we prepared earlier. Here the profile should remain until the tree is completely dry. Ideally, we steam the planks in the evening and leave them bent in a semicircle until morning. After drying, the folded profile can be installed in the designated place.


We make a ceiling plinth from a wooden profile, flexible

Buying ready-made moldings

On sale you can find ready-made flexible skirting boards for floors and ceilings. They are made from different materials:

  • , flexible.
  • Soft molding and PVC skirting strip.
  • Floor flexible skirting board made of cork, semicircular, bent.

Flexible polyurethane skirting board has an optimal combination of price and quality, it is used quite often. Skirting tape is relatively inexpensive, but it is capricious in installation and not every type of glue is suitable for it. It is more often used for the bathroom. Flexible floor plinth made of cork is the most expensive of these three types, but the naturalness of the material and excellent appearance speaks in its favor.


Flexible skirting board, floor, cork

The curved curved skirting board is made of natural wood. It is almost impossible to buy such moldings in finished form, since they are made along the radius of a certain bend of the wall or column. Therefore, this decor is purchased, as a rule, to order, and it cannot be attributed to cheap ones. However, bent semicircular wood moldings undoubtedly outperform plastic on outward appearance, therefore, all the time and financial costs will be justified.


Any repair in different types of premises ends with the installation of skirting boards. With the help of these decorative products, the room acquires a complete and harmonious look. Previously, only wooden products were used as plinths, but they are relevant only for rectangular or square rooms. In modern apartments, boring straight lines are already being abandoned, which means that wooden products are inapplicable in such cases. But there is a solution - this is a flexible skirting board for the floor.

Goals and objectives that a flexible novelty solves

As soon as in construction and design they began to abandon rectilinear walls and ceilings and began to mount columns and other decorative architectural elements with a curved section, the question of plinths for these structures immediately arose.

Previously, home-made specialists bent drywall fragments, used plastic inserts, there were even attempts to imitate plywood skirting boards. Special constructions were made from plaster.

The need for flexible products is clear. Most skirting boards on the market are not easy to use with semicircular or curved walls. This primarily applies to dense materials such as ceramics or laminate. In this case, gaps will remain, which, from the point of view of aesthetics, are better hidden. The skirting board also perfectly hides the edges of the wallpaper that are unevenly cut during gluing. It will keep dust and debris out of the joint between the wall and floor.

Column floor skirting is very difficult to make from pieces. In appearance, such a design will not be very attractive, and besides, it will not work to make an integral system. Just a couple of light mechanical influences are enough for the entire structure to lose its already unimportant appearance, or even completely crumble. With the help of a flexible plinth for the floor, you can most effectively solve all these problems.

Varieties

The modern construction market offers several types of these flexible products. Depending on the materials, all products can be divided into plastic skirting boards, cork and liquid products.

Ideally, a rubber skirting board would do just fine. But the strength characteristics of rubber cannot meet the requirements that are imposed on skirting boards today.

Plastic products

This docking product serves for finishing, as well as the transition from horizontal surfaces to vertical ones. It perfectly retains the given shape for a long time. Chemists have developed the perfect formula that can solve all problems.

Often, skirting boards like this are designed for use on small radius bends. At the heart of the U-shaped part and a decorative strip.

In order for the plinth to be truly flexible, manufacturers recommend placing it in water heated to 60-70 degrees beforehand. At this temperature, polymers can increase their plasticity characteristics.

Installation work should begin with the installation and fixing of the base. Mounting holes must be made on the base. During installation, the base is distributed around the entire perimeter of the room. If necessary, the material is trimmed to suitable measurements. Then, through the mounting holes on the plinth, mark the holes on the wall. The distance from the floor to the center of the hole should be at least 2 cm. Then, using a punch, holes are made in the wall with a drill, the diameter of which is 6 mm. Plastic dowels are installed in the holes obtained. Then, the base is laid out and fixed with self-tapping screws.

After the performed operations, the flexible decorative product is installed on the bar. Ideally, the lower edge of the decorative part should adhere very tightly and without gaps to the plane of the floor. After the decorative element has completely cooled down, it will gain the strength necessary for reliable operation.

Plastic skirting board with cable duct

This product is considered one of the most popular. This product is versatile and affordable.

This solution is distinguished by the flexibility of the strips, ease of installation, and also low weight. The profile allows you to press it very tightly against any wall. Despite its flexibility, the product has a fairly high strength and durability characteristics. In addition, the product is moisture resistant, resistant to ultraviolet radiation, temperature extremes. The profile is non-toxic and completely safe for humans, and also does not burn. There is no need for pretreatment to use this product. Another advantage is a wide range of colors for any materials.

The presence of a cable channel allows you to secretly lay any cables and wires. It is very easy to care for your profile.

The main part of the structure is the cable channel. It has enough room to run even thick enough cables. With this part, the profile is attached to the wall. After laying, the channel can be closed with a special decorative panel. Installation of the profile is carried out using self-tapping screws, on a mounting bracket, or glue.

The disadvantage of this skirting board is the need to purchase accessories. These are external as well as internal corners, side plugs, connecting elements for docking. Before installation work, you will need to calculate the angles very accurately. Without these elements, its installation will be impossible.

Cork skirting - a gift from India itself

Flexible skirting boards for the floor can be made not only from polymers, but also from natural materials. An important and indisputable advantage of these products is their environmental friendliness. This is now very much appreciated in the world.

Previously, the cork was supplied from India. Today it is also produced in other countries. Plinth made of it will be an excellent addition to embossed or cork wallpaper.

Skirting boards can be veneered. In this case, a thick layer of veneer of natural and expensive wood species is applied to the base. This technology is in many ways similar to the production of plywood, but cork products are more environmentally friendly.

Also, these skirting boards withstand wear and tear and mechanical stress, are not afraid of moisture. It is believed that cork has excellent soundproofing characteristics, but in relation to skirting boards it is difficult to say anything about it.

The cork is very easy to work with. It is easy to cut, and also adheres to any wall covering without problems and difficulties. The material itself is very lightweight and has good adhesion characteristics. To work with such skirting boards, you can use any quick-drying adhesives.

Veneered skirting boards can be varnished or stained. The result is a very effective and attractive outwardly element, similar to expensive wood.

Installation is very different from installing a plastic product. It is recommended to varnish it before fastening. For installation, as already noted, any glue is suitable. Even "liquid nails" can be used.

Spread the adhesive on the flexible product from the inside out. Then the part is pressed tightly against the wall, and the lower edge should rest against the floor. After that, the product is removed, and after a few minutes it is finally pressed against the wall. In order to avoid the formation of gaps, the top edge can be pressed with tape.

Softwood skirting boards

Technologies are constantly evolving and those materials that were previously extremely hard, today acquire flexibility and plasticity. It's all about liquid skirting boards.

The production of such a product is rather complicated; hard woods are used as materials. These are mainly oak, ash and other species. Under the influence of special chemical reagents, cellulose turns into a jelly-like consistency. In this case, the color is completely preserved. Under the influence of oxygen, the necessary hardness is acquired, and the skirting board is sold in vacuum packages.

Installation technology will not cause difficulties, but it requires special care and attention. First of all, manufacturers recommend spreading product packaging along the surface along the walls. Then the bags are opened in turn, and the mass is laid out in the places where the floor connects to the wall. The consistency of the product will initially be similar to rubber, but then the product will harden and take on its final appearance.

Polyurethane profiles

Polyurethane flexible profile or Rico Flex is a decorative floor element that will complement any room.

Specifications generally depend on the composition. But the polyurethane profile is lightweight, highly flexible and easy to install, durable, easy to maintain. It can also be painted in any color.

Installation of flexible floor skirting boards starts from any angle. The profiles must be cut at an angle of 45 °. Ensure that the alignment is accurate prior to installation. Installation is greatly facilitated by flexibility - you can firmly attach the product even to very uneven walls. Self-tapping screws are not used for fastening - installation is carried out only with glue. Any high-quality glue will do, but more often skirting board manufacturers also produce adhesives.

Using a pistol, the glue mixture is applied to the back of the product in continuous strips. When the skirting board is installed, a little glue is also applied to the joint. Then the profile is pressed against the surface, then removed and the glue is allowed to dry out. After that, the plinth is pressed completely. Any excess glue must be removed immediately. It is allowed to glue the profile only on the wall, but not on the floor covering.