Don’t know your soffit from your skirting board? That nasty stuff was used in New Zealand before the 1920s, and sometimes later. Bernie Almanzar/Unsplash That horizontal piece of wood is the skirting board. What exactly is a skirting board? BRANZ, the independent building research body, actually has a much more comprehensive glossary of renovation terms at its renovate.org.nz site.

Source: Stuff October 03, 2021 16:52 UTC