Ah, the humble skirting board. The simultaneous joy and bane of our existence. When skirting boards begin to take up significant real estate in your conscious mind, it’s safe to say you’ve officially become an adult.
For not all flats and houses come equal, and proper skirting boards represent a certain elevated, luxurious aesthetic that any interior expert would envy. The problem? They act as a frustratingly powerful magnet for dust. When living in a big city, it’s natural to assume that dust is going to settle on surfaces throughout the home on a quotidian basis.
It’s one of the many sacrifices we make in order to be in the hustle and bustle of a capital. This is nothing that a simple feather duster can’t fix, and many of us will do a simple sweep of our homes in the morning or after work to prevent allergies from making a comeback out of season. Yet for some strange reason unbeknownst to us, feather dusters don’t do a great job on dust-laden skirting boards.
Forget about hoovering them too, for even without a standard floor attachment the nozzle never quite seems to fit on slim skirting boards without scratching or chipping them. Instead, the vast majority of skirting board owners have to go about cleaning them manually after the rest of the housework is done. The same goes for the ceiling sister to the skirting board – cornicing.
Both tend to require dusters or magnetic mops with telescopic handles. The best way to really get the muck off your skirting board.