My builder is making good a few rooms as we near the end of a Victorian Terrace refurb and I’m a bit disappointed with the way skirting boards have been fitted in certain areas.
The problem is we have original wood flooring which are uneven (in fact all walls are uneven too!), we like the original / non-perfect look of the boards and don't want them replaced but the joiner has attempted to follow this unevenness with the skirting to minimise gaps between the floorboard and skirting. However… this becomes really noticeable when it runs beneath perfectly level radiators:
http://bpkersey.com/images/skirting2.jpg
http://bpkersey.com/images/skirting1.jpg
He’s advised if he was to run a single piece of skirting along this wall – spirit-level straight – we’d end up with a gap at the far end of about 5mm between skirting and floorboard (and of course the 2 bits of skirting wouldn’t meet perfectly at the corner either).
Am i being too critical or is there a better way he could have approached this?? We don't want to lose the character of the place but if we're paying for a rebuff i want it to look finished properly.
The problem is we have original wood flooring which are uneven (in fact all walls are uneven too!), we like the original / non-perfect look of the boards and don't want them replaced but the joiner has attempted to follow this unevenness with the skirting to minimise gaps between the floorboard and skirting. However… this becomes really noticeable when it runs beneath perfectly level radiators:
http://bpkersey.com/images/skirting2.jpg
http://bpkersey.com/images/skirting1.jpg
He’s advised if he was to run a single piece of skirting along this wall – spirit-level straight – we’d end up with a gap at the far end of about 5mm between skirting and floorboard (and of course the 2 bits of skirting wouldn’t meet perfectly at the corner either).
Am i being too critical or is there a better way he could have approached this?? We don't want to lose the character of the place but if we're paying for a rebuff i want it to look finished properly.