Cover Slips: three lengths, 2.5cm to fit, silver or gold

Most trim in this part of the catalogue comes in long lengths for long runs. The Cover Slips set is the opposite idea: three short pieces, in one pack, for the small details that a full-length strip cannot serve.

Three lengths in one set

The pack holds one piece at each of three lengths, so you are buying a choice rather than a quantity:

Thirty, sixty and ninety are the lengths that suit a vertical detail beside a socket, a band across the lower half of a panel, or a section that stops at a dado line. The description puts it as mixing and matching to suit the space, and in practice that is what the set is: you work out the arrangement on the wall with all three in your hand.

The 2.5cm figure is the one that decides fit

Two measurements govern whether this will work on your wall. The listing gives a width to fit of 2.5cm and a depth of 1cm. The width to fit is the figure to check against whatever you are covering, because a slip 2.5cm across will not sit neatly over a wider channel and will look lost on a narrower one. Measure what you intend to cover before you order. The listing does not name which panel profiles that 2.5cm corresponds to, so if you are matching a specific board, ask the shop to confirm the pairing rather than assuming it.

Silver or gold, and what is not said about it

The finish comes in silver or gold and the description calls it chromatic and reflective. What the listing does not state is the material underneath that finish, and a reflective surface is not by itself evidence of metal. If the slips are going somewhere that gets handled, a doorway or a hallway, that is worth asking about. A reflective finish also picks up whatever is opposite it, so hold a piece up in the room's own light before committing to a wall full of them.

What the packaging figures tell you

The listing publishes the shipping sizes, which is more useful than it sounds. A single pack is given as 2.5cm diameter by 94cm and 0.56kg, so it arrives as a slim tube just under a metre long rather than a flat box. If you are ordering for a flat with a tight stair or a narrow hall cupboard, that shape is easy to handle. The twenty-pack carton is listed at 23 x 25 x 98cm and 11.2kg for anyone buying in volume.

What it works alongside

Longer runs on the same wall are served by the full-length profiles: the Strip B for WP 07/11 at 240cm, or the Aluminium I Strip at 300cm if you want a metal finish along a join. Both sit with the rest of the edge parts in Trims & Fittings, alongside the boards in Wall Panelling. Delivery is free within 50 miles of the Glasgow store and £50 beyond.

Measure the width you need to cover, check it against 2.5cm, then choose silver or gold on the Cover Slips product page.