On 19 Apr 2006 02:39:59 -0700, "MankyManning"
wrote:

I am redecorating my living room and am probably going to sand the
floorboards as they are in quite good nick really, there used to be
carpet down.

The only slight problem is that under certain sections of skirting
board there is a slight gap between skirting and floorboards (up to 5mm
in some places, other places there is no gap). This would not normally
bother me but my wife **hates** spiders and wants this gap to be
blocked up.

Now I don't have the time to remove all the skirting and refit it so I
was wondering if there was an alternative?

Perhaps a thin strip of cork which could be wedged in all along where
the gap is, should look okay and being cork should squeeze in nicely.
Has anyone heard of doing something like this is does it sound complete
madness? Any ideas where I could buy some cork like that if it sounds
an okay idea?

Thanks.

If you are going to paint the skirting, some plaster would be what I
would use, on the grounds that it's cheap and easy to apply, but
mainly because it can be removed easily. The foam/adhesive approach
will weld the skirting to the floorboards, I have had to remove
lengths that had been done this way. The skirting was scrap and had to
be replaced.