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??

So the skirting is made of wood, not very high, nothing
special. Another question is: why are you stripping it?


while on the subject, would the same apply for doorframes if we need to
re-hang the doors to open from the other side, ie replace frames or fill
in old holes?just rewired everything. Any thoughts??


Just fill the inge rebates/holes, rub down, paint.


........and can a skim of plaster be applied over painted walls (to cover
the channels for the new wiring and the cracks....) or do we have to scrape
all the old paint off...???

Much less work to fill, I should have thought.