Skirting board covers are manufactured to fit over your existing skirting board so that they can be updated without the need to remove them. These covers can be machined in a way that will accommodate both the existing skirting board AND any cables you wish to hide. Cable trunking is a square plastic channel which houses cables and stops them from being on show in your room. Having Ethernet/telephone/speaker cables on show can make even the most well thought out interior look cumbersome and cluttered. Not to mention that these can present a trip hazard or become an impromptu toy for curious babies and toddlers!

Cable clips don’t hide cables from view, but pin the cable to the wall to keep them tidy. These are mainly used when the cable is required to run around the outside of a doorway, and the clips pin the cable to the top of the skirting and the exterior edge of the architrave to allow for this. This Bullnose skirting cover has been machined to allow extra space to house both the existing skirting and cables. By quite some distance, the most widely used method for hiding cables is plastic trunking. You may have used it or have some around your home at the moment. Trunking is a thin length of plastic that forms a casing for wires, which runs either vertically or horizontally across the face of your wall. Being cheap, easy to work with and widely available makes plastic trunking a popular method of cable management. However, they aren’t particularly aesthetically pleasing and are generally considered ‘the best of a bad bunch’ given the quality of other available options. Whilst trunking can be painted to match the colour of your walls, it is impossible to truly disguise because it’s bulky nature tends to draw the eye straight to it.