"Mara Sheldon" wrote in message
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To save ourselves time and energy, I thought we'd ask you guys first......
Whilst struggling with a hot air paint stripper to strip our existing
skirting boards of paint, and melting the tiles around the edges of the
room in the process, I was wondering whether the effort of stripping the
existing skirting boards and trying to save the tiles, (in the whole of
our 2 bedroom flat) is actually worthwhile, or whether it would be more
cost-effective to just pull the existing skirting boards out and replace
the whole lot??? We will need to replaster all the walls anyway since we
have just rewired everything. Any thoughts??
TIA

Mara


Almost always replace, yes, unless you are really hard up, especialliy if
you are replastering. By the time you have finished scraping the surface
will need redoing anyway. If you are replastering, then it will look better
plastered down below skirting board level with new ones on top.


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