Indeed not, However, in my old house I got away with just a few wood blocks
of the depth of the plaster and screwed through those into the main wall
structure, its now 30 years on and they are still there. :-)

However this was bog standard skirting, not posh oak.

Bryan

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I'm about to fit some oak skirting in a room with lime plaster over
solid concrete blocks. Down near floor level there are large gaps where
the plaster and render has gone. I'll be screwing to the block and
plugging the holes, but how do I support the bottom of the skirting? All
I can think of is to cut a 1"-1.5" wide strip in the plaster/render so I
can fix a batten around the room and then fixing the bottom of the
skirting to this batten, but that's a lot of work. How else can I do it?

Also, there are several external corners that need to be closely mitred
(the oak will be oiled, not painted) so how do I make sure they fit and
stay closed?

Dunno, but don't assume the corners are right angles!
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On 23/04/2018 20:07, Brian Gaff wrote:
Indeed not, However, in my old house I got away with just a few wood blocks
of the depth of the plaster and screwed through those into the main wall
structure,

That's how the skirting on my 1905 house was originally fitted and how
the replacement skirting is fitted. However it appears that the original
skirting may have been fitted first with the wood blocks acting as
spacers and then the wall was plastered later.

The only advice would offer if using this method is make sure that the
wooden spacers are FIRMLY connected to the wall and the front surface is
true and not sloping in any direction. I used small packing pieces at
the back of the blocks whilst screwing them in to true up the front.



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replying to Brian Gaff, marcgreene22 wrote:
Hi i had the same problem, what i got advised to do was use some form of
gripfill and pin to the wall until it went off and mine is still fine to this
day, luckily the place i got my skirting from did a product called demsun and
i found that better than your standard gripfill
https://mdfskirtingworld.co.uk/searc...tion=prod uct

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