Fitting skirting board but big gap to fill.

socks_uk

Quite a while ago we had some work done in the dining room which involved plastering the wall. We are now ready to paint the wall and fix on new skirting board but the plaster stops about 4 inches from the floor. This means there is a void and so nothing to nail/screw into or use 'no-nails' to fix it.

Can anyone please suggest a way to fill the gap? Thanks in advance!
(I'll try to upload a photo soon)

1984ReturnsForReal_2

buy a battens of wood the right depth & screw them to the wall & tack the skirting to that.

loracan1

I've taken old skirting boards off before now to find blocks of wood fixed to the wall behind, to which the skirting boards themselves have been fixed.

McKneff

Deleted, sorry, i misread the OP.

Were they professional plasterers, seems a silly place to stop the plastering.

socks_uk

McKneff wrote: »

Deleted, sorry, i misread the OP.

Were they professional plasterers, seems a silly place to stop the plastering.

No, he was the brother of someone I work with. The plaster has a nice smooth surface but the edges and corners needed sorting which I did, it's just this big gap.

I've got some batons of wood in the garage so I'll give it a go. Thanks.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

socks_uk wrote: »

I've got some batons of wood in the garage so I'll give it a go. Thanks.

They have got to be the right width otherwise it wont work. Caulk will fill small gaps between the skirting & plaster but its best to get that skirting as near to flush as possible.

socks_uk

I'm just charging my camera battery up then I'll try to put a photo here via photobucket.