Thread: Nailing quad to skirting

Originally Posted by DavidC

Cant do that or the poly will come off and have to be restained

????Huh

Why would the poly come off, what im saying is plane or cut down wood that is of the same type to fill the gaps, you wouldnt need to touch your current skirtings with a plane only the new peice(s) that you'll be adding too it!

I would put nothing there. As others have said, no-one is going to see. My motto is- the more stuff to put somewhere, the more stuff you have to deal with when it is time to re-fresh... like when the speaker of the house has a brain wave and a new project is on the go.

Quick note on floor skirtings, mine are held in with the smallest nails possible I can pull them of with my hands or with a little force with a chisel. This makes rapainting much easier, and the skirtings can be freshened up in the shed at a comfortable height. You also ends up with clean lines where the different paints meet.

Cheers,
Conwood

Sell the house quick cos it's obviously rooted! :eek:

Well fellas I managed to get rid of the gaps what I did was get under the house and bang the retched floorboards up around edge of skirting
shimmed the boards and now the gaps are reduced to 2mm
this I'm not going to worry about
I can live with 2mm

It only took me the best of 10mins to get under house and bang boards up

Cheers !!!!

Thanks for youe input

Originally Posted by DavidC

It only took me the best of 10mins to get under house and bang boards up

That's so often the way, you put off doing something cos you think it'll be hard and when you finally get round to doing it, it's easy and done in no time. And other times, you think you're starting a 15 min job and then wonder where the day went.

Simon

If you are sanding the floor, I've heard that you can mix the sawdust with something (glue? silicone?) and use that to fill the gaps. This apparently gives you a colour that matches the floor.

There is probably someone reading this who knows more about it than I do.

Then again, you could buy some synthetic rope in a diameter a bit bigger than the gap and jam that under the skirting board. Would keep out draughts and stop little things being pushed into the underworld (never underestimate the minds of little people). No-one is really going to notice the gap unless you point it out to them.

Whos going to notice the gap, How many partys do you have in your BEDROOM