removing/replacing skirting boards?

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Hi, i am hoping someone can give me some advice as in new to DIY 
I am planning on painting my bedroom tomorrow.
The current skirting boards are brown wood and quite ugly and i want them to be white. dont plan on replacing the carpets in the next year or so, so i was thinking or replacing the skirting boards with white ones.
How easy is it to take the old ones off and put new ones on?
I'm hoping no plaster comes off when i pull them off. and how do you secure the new ones on the walls? the current ones must've been glued on because I cant see any screws?
does anybody know if this is an easy task or if it's best to get someone to do them for me?

I am planning on painting my bedroom tomorrow.
The current skirting boards are brown wood and quite ugly and i want them to be white. dont plan on replacing the carpets in the next year or so, so i was thinking or replacing the skirting boards with white ones.
How easy is it to take the old ones off and put new ones on?
I'm hoping no plaster comes off when i pull them off. and how do you secure the new ones on the walls? the current ones must've been glued on because I cant see any screws?
does anybody know if this is an easy task or if it's best to get someone to do them for me?
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They may be screwed or nailed (nails/screws may have been countersunk and filled).
Make sure you score along the top where they join the wall before prising off, otherwise you will pull of plaster.
Replace with slightly wider skirting, this will have the benefit of covering over the ragged line wher the previous skirting reached.
Use decorators caulk to fill in any gaps at the top of the skirting due to uneven walls etc
Invest in a coping saw for internal corners (google for how to do them), and a decent tenon or mitre saw for the external corners.
Watch out for your carpets when you repaint (I find it better to paint before applying the skirting, then you will just need a bit of touching up once they are applied.
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Good sanding down, primer then decent 'silk' finish gloss paint.(Silk is more forgiving on poor surfaces.;)
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Skirting boards can sometimes be a right s*d to remove, and the chances of doing it without damage to both the board and adjacent plaster are fairly remote. It is not a particularly difficult job to do. But, I would have thought, completely unnecessary, unless badly damaged in some way. Most likely a good sanding down will suffice. If not, then the application of a heat gun will remove the offending paint. One of the main secrets of DIY is to keep it simple.
Just so long as I don't want much.
You can get MDF ready primed skirting which is a hell of a lot easier to work with and a lot less hassle than priming wood.
Also hardly any walls are true so there will be some filling / caulking at the end. Fitting them is easy with some Gripfill and masonary nails.
However cutting them and mitreing them is not so easy.
HTH
have painted the room yesterday, so will wait till we get the carpets replaced and then replace the skirting at the same time :-)
the good news is that skirting is fairly cheap stuff.
I am guessing you will take off skirting before replacing carpet, in fact I would taake of skirting now before you even buy your carpet, gives you more time to fix any damage