Another skirting question..

[kaseryn]

If you wanted to fit new boards by screwing them in, what do you call those drill packs that bore out a bit of the wood that you can fit to the screwhole afterwards and where can you get a good set? Also.. in my flat the doorways have a glass transom above therefore the whole fitting is full height, so the architraving is small/thin.. there's no room to fit anything wide. If i swop out the skrting which is also quite narrow i'd probably like something wider.. what's the standard practice for joining those where they meet the narrorwe architrave.. just notch a 45 off the top corner of skrting or something else? I'd be varnishing or staining so would want the most attractive or at least least attention drawing join..

 

[mr_mike]

Hi Kaseryn,

In answer to your first question, you can use these :

http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/pro.jsp?id=35920&ts=89991

In answer to your second, the traditional method to deal with thicker skirting meeting narrow architrave would be to fit a 'plinth block'. If I knew how to draw pictures on computers I could show you !?

 

[kaseryn]

Cheers.. do you perhaps mean like.. a square block that sits prouder and is deeper than the skirt.. and they both just run square into it?

 

[mr_mike]

Exactly !!

 

[kaseryn]

Right.. i can see how that would look good, cheers for the tip