Grumpy old git like me, yeh but i do agree ime not keen on them either but a tilers dream dont have to be to fussy with your cuts and you get paid to put them on, we generaly dont use them in bathrooms though so its tile floor to plastered walls then skirting dont look that bad in an old Spanish house and their is a reason for them to keep foot, hoover and broom marks of the wall the Spanish word for skirting translates someyhing like row for feet.
Lucius.