Carpentry Fitted Furniture

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Is this an acceptable way for a carpenter to leave skirting board when making and fitting a chest of drawers?

The carpenter has left a hole where the original carpet has a dip, as the old skirting from that area was removed.

Should the carpenter pack the gap and sand down the glue adhesive on skirting? As he says it’s not his job, a decorator would need to sand down the skirting and a carpet fitter would be required to fit a new carpet?

Looking for advice on what is industry practice ?

Is this an acceptable finished product ?
 

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It wouldn't be acceptable to me, looks like he fitted a smaller skirting as well as not aligning it properly and I would have fitted an architrave on the junction between the drawers unit and the wall as it'll probably crack there. Though then the worktop would need to have been extended out/to the side a bit to cover the end. The drawers don't look like they align perfectly either. I dare say most of it can be sorted out with some filler etc but that shouldn't be necessary IMO. All looks a bit DIY.

Edit: he's used the old skirting from inside the recess, weird how it's shorter than the other one.
 
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