Removing part of a skirting board

Avoriaz

KierNet wrote: »

..It does make me laugh on MSE, very few people seem to help with the original question, but give ways that aren't possible :rollseyes:

Thanks for anybody that did help .

What an ungrateful piece of work you are. :mad:

I and others spent time and effort trying to understand your not very well expressed problem and come up with possible solutions.

And the above is what we get for our efforts. :mad:

Your interpersonal skills appear to be as bad as your DIY skills.

KierNet

Avoriaz wrote: »

What an ungrateful piece of work you are. :mad:

I and others spent time and effort trying to understand your not very well expressed problem and come up with possible solutions.

And the above is what we get for our efforts. :mad:

Your interpersonal skills appear to be as bad as your DIY skills.

How is it not very well expressed?

The legs rest on the skirting board, so, I'm trying to find the best way to remove it. It only needs to be a little section if thats possible, or I could get rid of the 3/4ft that my bed would hide.

I can't make it any clearer than that can I? So people saying put 'feet' under it isn't helpful at all, people saying that I could damage the wall, and what if I want to move it again isn't either.

Taking the legs off wouldn't work due to the type of bed, that I linked too twice, yet people seemed to ignore that.

Strangely, I go to another forum and ask the same question, and everyone offered me advice on how to remove the skirting board, not giving me advice that isn't useful.

Ungrateful? I said thanks to those that helped .

CheltBloke

If you really want to cut the skirting board, you could always (instead of using Chisel as previously suggested) use a
Bosch PMF 180 E

which will allow you to cut out 2 holes in the skirting boards easily. However be careful of electric wires / plumbing behind the boards. Keep hold of the skirting so that you can glue it back later.

Avoriaz

KierNet wrote: »

How is it not very well expressed?

I can't make it any clearer than that can I? So people saying put 'feet' under it isn't helpful at all, people saying that I could damage the wall, and what if I want to move it again isn't either.

Taking the legs off wouldn't work due to the type of bed, that I linked too twice, yet people seemed to ignore that.

Strangely, I go to another forum and ask the same question, and everyone offered me advice on how to remove the skirting board, not giving me advice that isn't useful.

Ungrateful? I said thanks to those that helped .

You asked for help.

Help was offered.

Instead of thanking those that had taken the trouble to help, even if that help was not appropriate, you roll your eyes sarcastically and make rude comments.

FPOS

aliasojo

KierNet wrote: »

So people saying put 'feet' under it isn't helpful at all, people saying that I could damage the wall, and what if I want to move it again isn't either.

Ungrateful? I said thanks to those that helped .

Apologies for not coming up with a better idea for you.

Ungrateful? Yes you're damned right you are.

You insult those who didn't have a suggestion you liked or thought would work and completely ignored the fact they took time to even bother replying to you, in an effort to help.

You could easily just have said thanks for the suggestions but then disregarded any that were of no use to you, but you chose to have a go at us instead.

After you brush up on your DIY skills maybe you could brush up on your maturity.

ormus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7de58oQMZw&feature=related

heres an example of how to remove an old bit of skirting.

keystone

CheltBloke wrote: »

If you really want to cut the skirting board, you could always (instead of using Chisel as previously suggested) use a
Bosch PMF 180 E

As already suggested in post Number 9 and reiterated in post number 15.

Cheers

KierNet

ormus wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7de58oQMZw&feature=related

heres an example of how to remove an old bit of skirting.

Thank you ormus .

loracan1

If you take the skirting board off before cutting, score heavily along it with a stanley knife (to prevent the wallpaper tearing above it), lever it off gently in several places with some sort of wrench/tyre iron/lever, just keep working along it with different implements if needed (kitchen knives?) the idea is to ease it off to cause least damage. Then do the sawing, put the bits back and keep the middle bit to replace at some point.
(Worst case scenario, you might have a bit of patching up)

Can't you take off the bed legs at one end, then prop the bed on something?
Or perhaps parents expect their sprogs to do minor building work in their rooms!

it's a bit of skirting, I'd be happy for my kids to adapt a tenner's worth of wood anytime!

nickj_2

keystone wrote: »

Fein Multimaster or one of the cheaper copies.

Cheers

agree , it has a small saw attachment that will do the trick