benpost wrote:

whats the best way of doing this??

Dunno 'best'. I've previously used a wide paint-scraper to hold carpet back
just enough to lightly paint below the carpet edge. But I'm afraid I'm
sloppy enough just to let the carpet spring back after that, at which point
some of it may touch the newly painted skirting. OTOH if the carpet's going
to touch that closely you're never going to see the skirting behind the
touching carpet anyway.

I'd have thought that all the cleverer ideas, like blinds slats, suffer from
the same problem. If you remove them while the paint is wet the carpet can
spring back, whereas if you let the paint dry, getting the slats out again
without breaking the painty edge might be tricky.

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Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own.