any skirting board exprts out there??

olivia84

Hi there,

We basically live in the house that jack built (ex coucil house, lots of council 'repairs' etc, uneven walls, sloppy finish on most things)

A friend fitted a new kitchen for us and made a fantastic job of it. However our plastered walls were a bit of a mess but i just could not face the mess and hassle of replastering/skimming so we ripped off the old uneven skirting and wallpapered, stopping at where the skirting would be.

We are not the best with woodwork so i asked a local door fitter/ joiner to fit some new ones. I'm a bit disappointed with the job. Underneath the old skirting was uneven plaster/rubble and there is now a bit of a gap between the wall and the skirting as it is being forced out by the uneven-ness of the wall. Is there anything that can be done here?? I'm guessing just fill the gap with decorators caulk.

Also, the man has mitered an angle at the top of the doors but not at the bottom, as in the vertical skirting goes right to the floor and the bottom horizontal skirting bangs straight into the side of it. Boyf reckons there should be a kinda square block slotted in here?? Is it too late to fit this? Could we slice a wee square off at the bottom and slot one in? Is there a thin block looking cover we could stick on at the join??

If anyone has a clue what i'm on about (i'm not the best at explaining things!) And has any suggestions, it would be great.

Thanks x

UsernameAlreadyExists

olivia84 wrote: »

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Also, the man has mitered an angle at the top of the doors but not at the bottom, as in the vertical skirting goes right to the floor and the bottom horizontal skirting bangs straight into the side of it. Boyf reckons there should be a kinda square block slotted in here?? Is it too late to fit this? Could we slice a wee square off at the bottom and slot one in? Is there a thin block looking cover we could stick on at the join??

I've just looked at mine, and what you've described is the same. Having looked at it and thought about it, you couldn't really do it any other way. The floor skirting will be butting up to the outside edge of the architrave.



Fill the floor skirting gaps with Caulk and ignore it

phill99

Usernamealreadyexists I absolutely correct. Your chippy has done it correctly. Occasionally you get a square block at the base of the architrave but only on very ornate or period installations.

zaax

olivia84 wrote: »

Hi there,

We basically live in the house that jack built (ex coucil house, lots of council 'repairs' etc, uneven walls, sloppy finish on most things)

A friend fitted a new kitchen for us and made a fantastic job of it. However our plastered walls were a bit of a mess but i just could not face the mess and hassle of replastering/skimming so we ripped off the old uneven skirting and wallpapered, stopping at where the skirting would be.

We are not the best with woodwork so i asked a local door fitter/ joiner to fit some new ones. I'm a bit disappointed with the job. Underneath the old skirting was uneven plaster/rubble and there is now a bit of a gap between the wall and the skirting as it is being forced out by the uneven-ness of the wall. Is there anything that can be done here?? I'm guessing just fill the gap with decorators caulk.

Or leave it. the only way to over come this is to sand the wall on the high spots, or steam the whole plank of wood and screw the wood to the wall whilst hot.
My mine is an 30mm out across the whole wall.

olivia84

ah thanks everyone. the gap down the side doesn't really bother me that much as i know i can fill that and it's just basically the state of the wall that has caused that, not the joiners fault - however, zaax, i like the idea of the steaming the wood and screwing it into place while its soft

it was the non mitering or putting in a decorative block at the bottom that annoyed me; i thought the joiner was just being lazy here (and getting grief from OH as it was me that arranged the joiner since there was never a cat in hell's chance hea was gonna do it!) but if that's the way u reckon the experts do it then that's good enough for me!

thanks everyone!