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Skirting Jargon Buster
Skirting Jargon Buster
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Definition:
SKIRTING
- Vertical board running horizontally at junction between floor and wall, covering a tolerance gap often between plastered walls and boarded floors.
(NGS BRM ’13)
Relevance to Sustainable Construction:
- Provides a passageway for air movement and heat loss or coolth gain, in non-airtight buildings.
Hollow Skirting
- Could be hollow to carry electric cables for power and communications in front of the wall surface avoiding labour intensive and materials wasteful installations.
- Electrical looms (as used in vehicle assembly) can be considered for off site preassembly and Lean or efficient on site construction.
- Can facilitate the easy wiring and rewiring in future maintenance of cables
- Can accommodate future installation of systems that do not exist today
- Can have quick release fasteners to facilitate easy access
- Can connect with Dado rails and dado panels and door architraves to route wiring around building
Materials
- Usually Softwood or Hardwood
- Ideally Temperate not Tropical species
- Avoid acidic tanning containing species
- Could be reclaimed, locally sourced,
- Ideally UKWAS or FSC certified with chain of custody new wood
- Could be oiled or stained
- Often Painted or Lacquered
- Also made of plastic in commercial premises
- Often PVC which should be avoided if possible
(NGS BRM ’13)
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© GBE NGS ASWS BrianMurphy aka BrianSpecMan
18th November 2013 – 5th November 2018
Skirting Jargon Buster
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18th November 2013 – 5th November 2018
Skirting Jargon Buster
See also:
NGS JARGON BUSTER
- Architrave
- Cornice
- Cove
- Coved Skirting
- Cove Former
- Coving
- Dado
- Dado Panelling
- Dado Rail
- Dado Trunking
- Skirting (this page)
NGS DEFECTS
NGS SOLUTIONS
NGS CPD
- EcoShowcase Liability v Sustainability
- Layering
- Resource Efficient Design
NGS CHECKLIST
- M50 Rubber/Plastics/Cork/Lino/Carpet tiling/sheeting
- P20 Unframed Isolated trims/skirtings/sundry items
NGS LINKS
- FSP Flooring Sustainability Partnership
- CFA Contract Flooring Association
- CFJ Contract Flooring Journal
NGS PROJECTS
NGS CALCULATOR
- NGS WasteCost© lite
- NGS have an ambition to create a flooring waste calculator
- A grant application to DEFRA September 2013 was rejected
NGS GREEN BUILDING SPECIFICATION
- Robust Specification Clause
- Robust Specification Work Section
- M50 Gemini Risk Free Cap & Coving
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18th November 2013 – 5th November 2018
