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If it's around windows/doors it's casing, if it's going around the floor it's baseboard, if it's around the ceiling it's crown moulding, if it's halfway up the

by ChoGGi 2y ago

If it's around windows/doors it's casing, if it's going around the floor it's baseboard, if it's around the ceiling it's crown moulding, if it's halfway up the wall it's wainscoting.

walthamstow 2y ago
Wow, in the UK we have completely different names for every one of these. Difficult to believe we speak the same language sometimes. Windows is framing, doors is architrave, floors is skirting board, ceiling is coving, halfway up a wall is a dado rail and 3/4s+ up is a picture rail.
- petersumskas 2y ago
  Australia is about the same except around the ceiling we call it a cornice.
  - TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
    Slight correction: Around windows its architraves and reveals. But I’m in Tasmania, some geographic variation in dialect can be expected. Except, I’m from South Australia, so some people around here think I talk posh.
    - ChoGGi 2y ago
      For me the reveal is the amount of space between the window casing/trim and the frame of the window.
      - TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
        I tend to agree.
  - secondcoming 2y ago
    Cornice is used in the UK too, I've never heard of coving.
    - ChoGGi 2y ago
      Same, I've heard it rarely used. Never heard coving before.
    - walthamstow 2y ago
      Interesting, maybe it's a regional thing - I'm from London. The category on the B&Q site is called "cornice & coving" so either they mean the same thing or there's a subtle difference in which one is which. Maybe one is plaster and one is wood?
- patrick451 2y ago
  We use some of these terms in the U.S. too, but they are less common and/or mean something slightly different. Some carpenters and millwork companies will call casing architrave instead, but this seems be mostly used for classically inspired, high end work. I think I've heard some carpenters call baseboard skirting, but the most common usage of "skirting board" is restricted to the baseboard like piece on the sides of stairs. We have a term cove molding, but it is a particular style of crown molding. A rail at 3/4 height we also call picture rail. I don't think I've heard of dado rail though.
  - mordechai9000 2y ago
    I asked my neighbor (USA) if I could borrow his brad nailer to put up some trim board, and he didn't understand what I wanted to do until I explained it to him and he said "Oh, you mean mop board."
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- ChoGGi 2y ago
  That's why I come to hacker news. I didn't mention where I'm from, so those are Canadian terms, at least Western Can terms maybe? That dado rail is part of wainscoting, it's the top rail. Thanks wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dado_rail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dado_rail

by ChoGGi 2y ago

If it's around windows/doors it's casing, if it's going around the floor it's baseboard, if it's around the ceiling it's crown moulding, if it's halfway up the wall it's wainscoting.

walthamstow 2y ago

Wow, in the UK we have completely different names for every one of these. Difficult to believe we speak the same language sometimes. Windows is framing, doors is architrave, floors is skirting board, ceiling is coving, halfway up a wall is a dado rail and 3/4s+ up is a picture rail.

petersumskas 2y ago
Australia is about the same except around the ceiling we call it a cornice.
- TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
  Slight correction: Around windows its architraves and reveals. But I’m in Tasmania, some geographic variation in dialect can be expected. Except, I’m from South Australia, so some people around here think I talk posh.
  - ChoGGi 2y ago
    For me the reveal is the amount of space between the window casing/trim and the frame of the window.
    - TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
      I tend to agree.
- secondcoming 2y ago
  Cornice is used in the UK too, I've never heard of coving.
  - ChoGGi 2y ago
    Same, I've heard it rarely used. Never heard coving before.
  - walthamstow 2y ago
    Interesting, maybe it's a regional thing - I'm from London. The category on the B&Q site is called "cornice & coving" so either they mean the same thing or there's a subtle difference in which one is which. Maybe one is plaster and one is wood?
patrick451 2y ago
We use some of these terms in the U.S. too, but they are less common and/or mean something slightly different. Some carpenters and millwork companies will call casing architrave instead, but this seems be mostly used for classically inspired, high end work. I think I've heard some carpenters call baseboard skirting, but the most common usage of "skirting board" is restricted to the baseboard like piece on the sides of stairs. We have a term cove molding, but it is a particular style of crown molding. A rail at 3/4 height we also call picture rail. I don't think I've heard of dado rail though.
- mordechai9000 2y ago
  I asked my neighbor (USA) if I could borrow his brad nailer to put up some trim board, and he didn't understand what I wanted to do until I explained it to him and he said "Oh, you mean mop board."
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ChoGGi 2y ago
That's why I come to hacker news. I didn't mention where I'm from, so those are Canadian terms, at least Western Can terms maybe? That dado rail is part of wainscoting, it's the top rail. Thanks wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dado_rail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dado_rail