To remove the skirts or not..?

[ladderino]

Have to say you're luckier than me. In my old house, the previous owners had fitted a wooden floor with scotia all around to cover the gap to the skirting.

It looked awful, so we ripped it up, and then took the old skirting off.
Plan was to lay new floor and then put new skirting all around.

We were quite amazed to find that the plaster went only as far as the skirting, and had bare bricks behind the skirts.

Queue several weeks of me getting home from work each night to fit small sections of plasterboard to the bottom of the wall.

Looked great in the end though...

[CMYKguru]

first thought when i read the thread title

[BFG TERRANO]

530dTPhil said:

Just be prepared for ripping chunks of plaster off with the old skirting boards if they are attached with long nails!

This!

Changing all our skirting and architraves along with doors currently. The previous owner slapped paint everywhere regularly so it's easier to renew it.

As said- lots of plaster comes off with it, be prepared! If it's any help ours was built in the 60s.

[jon-]

ladderino said:

Have to say you're luckier than me. In my old house, the previous owners had fitted a wooden floor with scotia all around to cover the gap to the skirting.

It looked awful, so we ripped it up, and then took the old skirting off.
Plan was to lay new floor and then put new skirting all around.

We were quite amazed to find that the plaster went only as far as the skirting, and had bare bricks behind the skirts.

Queue several weeks of me getting home from work each night to fit small sections of plasterboard to the bottom of the wall.

Looked great in the end though...

Surely this reflects my photos? Why didn't you just do what I'm doing... Get slightly taller Skirts

[MonTheF1sh]

Brand new house and mine looked like this:


and once down my go at it looked like this:




used a multi tool for the door frames in the last picture.

[B17NNS]

MonTheF1sh said:

And that ladies, is how it's done.

[jon-]

Floor down, time to buy some skirting.

Was just going to pop to wicks and get some unfinished board (as I need to nail / screw it, no real point paying twice as much for the finished stuff) but reading the reviews they were mostly saying it arrived warped, and the longest lengths are only 2.4 metres.

Any suggestions on where to get some? Looking for a basic rounded profile, nothing fancy.

[B17NNS]

jon- said:

Any suggestions on where to get some? Looking for a basic rounded profile, nothing fancy.

Wickes or B&Q are fine for a little bit if you need it today. Local timber merchant will be cheaper and have lengths long enough to do decent runs without joins.

Primed MDF is the way to go.

[Simpo Two]

jon- said:

Any suggestions on where to get some? Looking for a basic rounded profile, nothing fancy.

I used http://skirtingsrus.co.uk/ - fast service and loads of styles to choose from.

[ladderino]

jon- said:

Surely this reflects my photos? Why didn't you just do what I'm doing... Get slightly taller Skirts

This is some of the original skirting - it was massive. Going any taller would have been pretty much just cladding the walls in wood.


I bought my replacement skirting from Wickes (was unprimed pine). Managed to arrange so that the joins were mostly behind the radiators, so the 2.4m length wasn't a problem but I do remember a lot of it being warped on arrival.

[monthefish]

B17NNS said:

MonTheF1sh said:

And that ladies, is how it's done.

(might as well take the credit of the work of my tribute act )

[MonTheF1sh]

monthefish said:

(might as well take the credit of the work of my tribute act )

Always

[JBliss]

Monthefish, Whats the name of that flooring? looking for something similar

[MonTheF1sh]

Kaindl rich walnut 8mm v groove