What would you do with this?

[Eddie Strohacker]

Refitting a small piece of skirting board butting up against an end panel here & it's going on just as it came off with about half of the profile sticking out. I could fix it as is or bevel it in or round it off. What would look best in your view?

[kambites]

Is it ultimately going to be parallel to the panel it's butting up against? Looks weird with the bottom tapering back like that but it looks like it's square to the other end so something is obviously skewed.

[Eddie Strohacker]

The last time this place saw a straight line was on the architect's drawing. I can ameliorate the angle by packing it out a bit but it will be a compromise between reducing the angle & having the skirt look like buck teeth. The piece isn't fitted in the pic, only offered up.

[andy43]

Chop into the plaster a bit to sit it flush to the end panel, if not, bevel it, either way get it 100% vertical as it currently looks like I fitted it.
Packing out bottom as is will also cover the gap in the floor.

[kambites]

If you can get it square, i'd round it off to roughly the same diameter as the curve on the top of the board. If you can't, I think a much smaller diameter curve will probably look less obvious.

[Simpo Two]

I'd pack the bottom out so it was vertical, and chamfer the end to fair in with the white panel.

[Big Al.]

I'd use a thinner profile of skirting board, fit in position square and upright and fill any gaps.

[Eddie Strohacker]

Big Al. said:

I'd use a thinner profile of skirting board, fit in position square and upright and fill any gaps.

Behind the piece the cuts in a sharp 90 degrees a cm or two, so any chopping in would see the wall overlap the top of the skirting. I can't go in, only out without using a thicker profile, so although I can square it up, I'll never get it flush with the end panel.

Sorry for adding bits of info late, I probably should have said that at the outset, so really the choices are chamfer, round off or leave as is?

Obviously will fill & make good and clean the horrible mould off the door frame too!

[FredAstaire]

bevel the edge into the panel. by the time its painted white nobody will notice

[Eddie Strohacker]

Cheers everyone, I chamfered it off in the end. Appreciate the advice