NC wrote:

I am about to lay laminate and will remove all the skirting to replace with
decent stuff. The current skirting is held in place with screws, covered up
by round plugs cut from scrap, and hammered into place to hide the
holes/screw heads. I could use a wrecking bar to lever the old skirting off,
but I would much rather take out the old plugs and unscrew neatly -

Just us a HSS drill about the same size as the plug - drill down it till
you hit the screw! Then unscrew as normal.

preserving the old holes for the new skirting. Is there a simple way of
doing this ?? Is there a tool that will do the job ??

Pull the old plugs out and fill the holes if you want - drill new ones
for the new skirting using the holes in the new skirting as a template.


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Cheers,

John.

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