Wood vs PVC beading for engineered wood flooring?

[mxo]

I’ve installed engineered wood flooring throughout the home. As the original skirting board has been kept, there’s a gap that needs to be covered by a trim/beading.

I need to decide whether to use PVC or wood beading. My concern is painting the PVC and it not blending with the skirting board, whether wood would be more aesthetic vs. PVC perhaps more durable? Note this isn’t in a bathroom.

For engineered wood flooring expansion gaps, is wood or PVC beading advisable?

 

[^woody^]

PVC trim, and foiled MDF looks worse than timber when it starts to get worn with inevitable knocks and dings, chemical staining and fading - and will never be retrievable. Plus, it tends never to blend in with either the skirting nor the flooring.

 

[aveatry]

Bit late now but the trick is to take off the skirting and put back over the floor so you dont need nasty looking beading. How have you finished around door frames. I might be inclined to go with white upvc beading if the skirt is white - you didn’t say.

 

[mxo]

Bit late now but the trick is to take off the skirting and put back over the floor so you dont need nasty looking beading. How have you finished around door frames. I might be inclined to go with white upvc beading if the skirt is white - you didn’t say.

It’s not all finished. It’s an old Victorian building though with original skirting, could removing the skirting cause damage? The skirting is white.

 

[chirpychippy]

You can buy Scotia Bead in Oak but it can be a bit of a faff to cut and pin or Oak Quadrant which imo is nicer than Scotia

Many moons ago I used neither, I find beading always looks like an after thought. I planted a miniature white skirting/Bead onto the white skirting, it blended better.