Heeh...builders and skirting don't go well together! They seem to have issues with small things like that...well, I thought it was a small thing until I started to realise it's not small for me!
You mean the flooring people made hammer marks? Omg...
How long did it take you to put the paint on the skirting, for say one bedroom? Did you have to put scotch tape everywhere? Yes, those photos are the ones the flooring people told us to buy. It was quite expensive per m2 i think...because it's metal? They are placed before the flooring(glued to slab I think), and the flooring slides in.
Lex, I wish I'd known about that beading when we'd had our bamboo flooring done, I still haven't finished re-installing our kitchen kickboards, and we moved in 2.5 years ago!
nobl. . . we have bamboo floors. Our builder tacked the skirtings on, we had the flooring people remove them and put them back on (after a big fight, and them leaving hammer marks in most of the walls), then I had to put the final coat of gloss paint on afterwards (after filling the holes with wood putty, sanding the wood putty and running some gapseal across the top).
Our installers cut out the bottom of the door-jambs to fit the bamboo underneath.
I saw these trims when searching earlier:
I think they'd be quite nice for the kitchen, but it looks like you have to install them before the flooring.
(url is http://www.woodflooring.co.nz/products/finishing-trims/)