How to hide this cable?

I've not seen ones that could go at the front there normally they run along the top of the skirting board and just look like part of that
 
If it were me, I'd remove the skirting, hide the cables and then reattach the skirting board, then tidy up and recaulk.
 
does the built in cabinet not have an interior gap you could wiggle a cable through ?
(looks as though you have two cables transparent + white ?)
 
As others have said can you remove the skirting and run the cable behind?

Also who fitted the flooring, doesn't look like much room has been given for any movement/expansion against the skirting...
 
GinG said:
Also who fitted the flooring, doesn't look like much room has been given for any movement/expansion against the skirting...
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I can't imagine the floor will expand vertically a noticable amount? I think the skirting has been installed after the flooring which is by far the best way of doing it. Hard to tell for definite on the photo though.

Unfortunately I can't think of a good way of hiding that cable without removing the skirting or it looking terrible.
 
kinobestew123 said:
I can't imagine the floor will expand vertically a noticable amount? I think the skirting has been installed after the flooring which is by far the best way of doing it. Hard to tell for definite on the photo though.

Unfortunately I can't think of a good way of hiding that cable without removing the skirting or it looking terrible.
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This is absolutely the best way around if it is. Just looking at the photo I can just see a cut on the corner and assumed the floor had been cut around the skirting and butted tight up.
 
GinG said:
Also who fitted the flooring, doesn't look like much room has been given for any movement/expansion against the skirting...
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The answer there is is visible in his photo, I did our our ground floor in Parquet 30 years ago, right up to the skirting and it's not moved one iota, so in reality the expansion myth is to get you to spend more money and effort adding ugly beading all round the skirting
 
No need for beading if you put the skirting on after and it looks better (imo)!

You save on the flooring itself by having an expansion gap because you need less :p
 
Usher said:
The answer there is is visible in his photo, I did our our ground floor in Parquet 30 years ago, right up to the skirting and it's not moved one iota, so in reality the expansion myth is to get you to spend more money and effort adding ugly beading all round the skirting
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Try telling that to my mother in law whos solid wood floor buckled up and had a huge ripple about 6 inch high in the middle of the room. Admittedly their house is by the coast so exposed to different conditions and it wasn't a laminate/engineered product. :p

Not sure if Parquet flooring wouldn't expand in the same way as solid wood planks with it being small blocks which are laid in different directions/patterns.
 
kinobestew123 said:
Try telling that to my mother in law whos solid wood floor buckled up and had a huge ripple about 6 inch high in the middle of the room. Admittedly their house is by the coast so exposed to different conditions and it wasn't a laminate/engineered product. :p
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I think your mothers house was built on an undiscovered geological fault in the Earths crust so she had a lucky escape :p
If their floor was not fixed down with adhesive then it could move in the same way those lay it yourself 'real wood' floor claddings that everyone went & got from B&Q will lift regardless of expansion gaps. Even fitted carpets can get ripples in high summer temperatures
 
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