Mara Sheldon wrote:
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

Depends on what skirting your replacing with if you do decide to pull off
the skirting? I found it cheaper to replace skirting in the living room as
it saved a lot of hassle stripping the paint off and straining the heat
guns life.

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Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite