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Yes the architrave/doorframe was built after the floor was fitted (by only a few days) but it wasn’t unexpected so should have been taken into account when the floor went down. Ok so they would need to cut the architrave out at the bottom to the same or slightly higher height of the skirting...

Unfortunately ripping up the floor isn’t possible as this would leave us with much bigger problems. The floor was put down, then a carpenter bought in to do the scotia trim and build the doorframe so they were done by different people (neither of whom seem to have realised we’d be left with...

We're very nearly at the end of a very tiresome refurb of our downstairs area. As you can see from the photos, our builder has used Silicon wood filler where the floor meets the door-frame and his reasoning is that any hard (setting type) wood filler would crack as you go through a year with the...