How to create a continuous Shadowline detail with Intrim SK342 skirting
Everything you need to know in easy to follow steps.
So you’ve fallen in love with the look of our Shadowline skirting boards and architraves but can’t install them as the plaster is already on your walls, Intrim have created a solution to give you the modern interior you are looking to achieve!
Intrim’s SK342 skirting and architrave can be installed to create a continuous shadowline detail allowing you to create the look without tearing off plaster and rebuilding your home.
Allowing for 5mm quirk from the edge of the door jamb. (Figure 1)
Butt the architrave and skirting together.
Make sure you line the outside edge (groove side) of architrave with the top edge (groove side) of skirting. Mark the width of architrave, e.g. 90mm, onto the end of skirting. (Figure 2)
On the end of the skirting board away from the mark.
Allowing for 5mm quirk from door jamb edge.
Check the bottom joint fits neatly onto the skirting and mark the top mitre cut on the architrave. Cut side architrave top mitre and fix in place. (Figure 5)
Fix in place.
To complete the opposite side of doorway skirting and architrave.
SK342 skirting is installed!
The scribing profile can be hard to install so you may want to cut ends into a square.
We recommend Finger Joint Pine over MDF as FJ Pine holds the line better on the wall and will make a crooked wall look straight unlike MDF which is more flexible and moulds to the wall.
