On Oct 5, 10:27*am, (Andrew Gabriel)
wrote:

You don't normally remove skirting/architrave when reskimming,
for exactly this reason. You skim up to the edge of it.

A fair point. However, in this case I'm replacing tiny 1960s skirt and
arc with more attractive, deeper ogee. I suppose I could have fitted
them before skim, but I'm not sure that's the canonical way to do
it...

Cheers
Richard