Hi all. Long time watcher first time poster. Recently bought a house and had joiner install new facing and skirts. Problem is now they are narrower than the old ones so I'm left with gaps everywhere. I have no clue what to do. I am getting a plasterer to skim the walls so hoping he will fix most of it. Some bits have massive holes so I'm unsure what to do. I was thinking expanding foam but unsure if you can skim over it. Honestly any help would be massively appreciated
best practice is you should make good and skimwith no skirtins or archi's fixed in place.
loosen all elec device plates an pull them away from the surface.
to fill dents in masonry you can use sand and cement dollops.
leave any bad bits in stud walls or wood laths to the plasterer or you can make it well worse.
best practice is you should make good and skimwith no skirtins or archi's fixed in place.
loosen all elec device plates an pull them away from the surface.
to fill dents in masonry you can use sand and cement dollops.
leave any bad bits in stud walls or wood laths to the plasterer or you can make it well worse.
The holes are no prob for a plasterer, its what they do!
What they dont normally do is have to skim upto architraves and skirting. What normally happens is the door linings stick out by 3mm and the plasterer uses that as a guide to plaster upto. So nice flat finish for the archtrave to go over.
Your plasterer will need to try and get the skim as even as possible and will have to run his float up to the back of the architrave. He wont be too pleased.
Your carpenter obviously pulled off the plaster getting the old archs / linings off, then fitted the new liners he had to get on with his day. Really he shouldve stopped, fitted wider linings and left off the archs.
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