Architrave

[Sepher]

I've had my upstairs all re plastered\painted and I'm down to the decorative bits - skirting, architrave, touching up door frames and new doors.

The skirting I am OK with. However I'm at a bit of a loss with the architrave having never done it before. The plasterer has plastered over the wood frame, but its not all plastered to the edge - its like a wave where parts of the frame are covered in plaster and overs not. My point here, is that if the architrave went on I would have a big gap running down the edge from inside the door frame.

What do I do here? Do I knock back the plaster so the frame edge is exposed, sand it down, pack with thin wood level with the wall and then glue architrave? Or do I glue the architrave onto what I already have and then fill the gap in with decorators caulk? I've heard of rebating the architrave, but I don't have a straight edge - the plasterer has sort of wiped his trowel off on the frame so some of the frame doesnt have plaster on it. And should a plasterer be plastering over wood in the first place?

 

[baileysufc]

How big is the gap?

 

[Norcon]

It sounds like he has done a real bad job. The frame should not be plastered over.

Unless the frame was not proud of the block work/stud walling.

A shim of frame could be added.

 

[foxhole]

Clean off the frame and pin the architrave [not glued].

 

[ladylola]

Quite common in my experience and I generally go down the rebating route. Take off any plaster sitting on the face of the lining to give you something solid to fix to and rebate the archs accordingly , no need to worry about a straight edge the rebate isn't seen so doesn't need to be the prettiest thing in the world and besides it's depth will vary to suit the amount of " excess " plaster.