Pretty much the same but no .blogspot. Same but BET-TER.
Got a bargain on skirting board on eBay. I think because it was listed at "Architraves" (which of course is correct) there were less people watching. We won the bid at 99c a piece and we only needed 7 pieces seeing as they were 5.4 meter lengths. When Pete went to pick them up, the guy had a mansion on the north shore with a Merc. in the garage. He said he was a builder and was fixing up his own house and didn't need the leftover skirting. Claimed he didn't know how to place an ad on eBay and charged us double, we accepted seeing it was only going to cost us $14 for the lot. Guess that Mercades needed the cash to cover the rising cost of petrol...
Cost us more on Tolls to get over the Sydney Harbour Bridge and back!
Pretty happy with this plain profile. We just wanted something simple (easy to keep clean too, could you imaging the dust that gets stuck in those ornate profiles!). Pete had to sand back some bits as they had some drops of paint stuck to them, to our delight however as we discovered that they are solid wood rather than cheaper MDF which is mostly used for architraves.
Here's a shot of the doorstop that Pete installed the same day we installed the floor. Unfortunately the door has such a large gap at the bottom, it misses the door stop. Oh well, door replacement is further down the line on the list of future projects.
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