Skirting Board - fix then paint or other way round?

MrYorke

Scottish_Icesaver wrote: »

Ah well I'll be ripping down some coving very shortly. Thanks for the advice. The more I thought about it the more I realised it probably wasn't going to work.

Befor eyou take the coving off, run a stanley knife underneath so it doesn't take the wall paper with it.....assuming your walls are papered

chrisg1985

My walls are never straight so I normally plug and screw.[/QUOTE]

Did the guy run the profile out of mdf? being a joiner I would think unlikely so;

If you follow this this advice be sure to put the grain the way round that the board will bow into the wall...so assuming you screw the board it will stop any movement even if it wants to move. If you place wrong way round and screw only central you might find the board bowing out top and bottom.