I do hope someone can help me with this. MiL has kindly offered to lend us the money to get our bedroom replastered and it currently has nasty 80's skirting board which I have always wanted to replace with something more in keeping with the room (very high ceilinged Edwardian). I am ssuming if we do change the skirting now's the time to do it and that we'd need to get the old stuff off before the walls are replastered.
There's about 20m of it to replace so presumably it would be expensisive to get a professional to do it? I'm wondering if anyone can kindly advise me how difficult a job changing it ourselves will be? Presumably the old stuff is nailed or screwed on so would we just need a hammer & chisel to get it off? We've already had a price for the plastering job so I'm anxious we don't damage the walls when we take it off as this could up the price. Could we find an nasty suprises when it comes off?
And putting the new stuff on: is that going to be hard? A friend can lend us the equipment for mitring the corners but we have a chimney breast, 5 sided bay window and a couple of other twiddly bits to negotiate.
Are we mad to even contemplate this?
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Replacing skirting board - is it easy? Advice please!
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thehouseofmirth · 05/10/2008 21:27
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