Quarry tiled floor help

[Sophie83]

My house is a 1950s ex-local authority build

There appears to be no rubber DPC, but quarry tiles on the GF instead.

The tiles are laid in the hallway and as well as being horizontal, where the skirting board would normally lie, there are upstands of the same quarry tiles.

I would like to chip these out and fit normal timber skirting boards, but i am a bit apprehensive that this will stop the layer acting as a damp proof course?

Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[mac391]

If there is a dpc, likely bitumen,, it has already been bridged by the tiles if it is a concrete floor as the dpc sits just a few mm above the concrete. It will do no harm at all to remove them and fit skirting.