Stuart Noble wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
The3rd Earl Of Derby wrote:


This is summising the skirting is the same in all rooms?

Replace the skirting in the smallest room with todays type and use
the old skirting to replace the bits that are missing in other
rooms. :-)


What an outstandingly good idea! Lateral thinking at it's best!



That's if the plaster behind doesn't collapse and you can get the
fixings out etc.

You must be going about it the wrong way then?

The secret is to find the nails and using a nail punch&hammer,hammer the
nails right through the skirting, with a stanley knife score the wall at
the top of the skirting all the way along and the skirting should then fall
away from wall.

Not a good idea to patch skirting IME. Replacing the whole section
with something close is less obvious than trying to insert a bit of
the same profile.

Your not very good at this are you.

I would have thought a timber merchant will have at least 3 chamfered
skirtings to choose from

They might but the thickness and height are not always the same as a period
house. :-)

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Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite