skirting board BrE
baseboard AmE
mopboard AmE

At home again, he was working on the skirting board.

The small space at the bottom will be covered by the skirting board.

Finally it shot across the room and embedded itself into the skirting board.

I stare at the skirting board for a few moments.

There was a loose panel in the skirting board behind the bed.

She swept her eyes along the skirting board and saw something jump.

The wallpaper had a damp line running along the skirting board.

And a more frantic presence was trapped behind the skirting board.

He took her glass and placed it on the floor, alongside his own, by the skirting board.

The junction box in the skirting board looked as if it had been damaged.

There's only one skirting board and the pipe cover.

Since when have rooms had skirting boards and why?

This is often covered by a skirting board or molding, to make the gap less apparent.

I, whose family offer to bring the stepladder if I plan to point the skirting board?

At the edges, make a series of short marks on the vinyl where skirting board and sheet will meet.

I shone it along the skirting board, across to the closet, and ; back to the bed again.

Well measure from your pole to your skirting board.

When the door-bell rang she had lifted a third of the carpet around the skirting board.

They'd called it the damp room since that first Sunday, though there was not a sign of rot from ceiling to skirting board.

As my head struck the floor it also struck some projection low down on the skirting board.

Other factors considered were how close to the skirting board and how far under beds the cleaners would go.

Lord Roke moved silently along the skirting board toward the door.

But I made no demur and continued wiping the skirting boards around the entrance hall.

'Well it's a mouse - it must be - you know, under the skirting board.

A small section of the baseboard had been cut away.

Actually, there was no reason to wait for the baseboard.

Another possibility is to open an area behind the baseboard.

Use a brush to cut in the areas near the baseboard.

The book came to rest against the baseboard and I went over to retrieve it.

In some cases, this is a simple matter of running the wire behind the wall or along the baseboard.

This winter, the baseboard in my bedroom did not give off any heat.

Most of them had forgotten the switch on the baseboard.

The baseboard moved down; the bit of flooring came up.

Start at the baseboard and try to peel the bottom edge of the paper up.

The red light at the baseboard was not on.

I scanned the baseboards in the bedroom for another jack.

A quick trip to the store for a new piece of baseboard and we could move everything back.

The resulting gap near the floor can be covered by baseboard.

The baseboards in my living room are twelve inches tall.

He looked around with that big smile on his face and said, "They even have electric baseboard heat."

I did the same with the baseboard, and the ceiling molding.

After the casing is in place, you can measure and cut the baseboard.

Everything was wood, from the floor to the baseboards to the desk to the chairs.

I saw bugs on the floor and a line of ants around the baseboard.

There was a bed in the opposite corner, with a high baseboard the foot.

He played the light along the baseboard of the wall, then down along the floor.

I went into the study, crouched down by the baseboard, and, at last, was able to open the gun box.

A hole had been bored through the baseboard at the rear.

This makes it easier to clean next to baseboards or in corners.

In architecture, a baseboard (also called skirting board, skirting, mopboard, floor molding, as well as base molding) is a (generally wooden) board covering the lowest part of an interior wall.