Hi all,
I am a novice DIYer and am having some troubles on my skirting in my stairway. The house is only a few years old and a crack had formed up most of the staircase where it meets the wooden "skirting".
So, I picked off the caulk that was still in place - however the base of the wall is quite uneven in some places. I am presuming some of the plasterboard wall was damaged as I took the caulk off.
What would be the best method of smoothing all this out? I am thinking of using some fine wall filler for the base of the wall and sanding down....then applying caulking down the join between plasterboard and wooden skirt.
I am just worried that I may make it more uneven by using the filler.
Any advice would be helpful...my fiancée wants to kill me as my attempt to caulk the stairway is very uneven (To top it off I am in danger of her calling her dad up to do it - which quite frankly would make me feel even more emasculated than I already do!!
)
I am a novice DIYer and am having some troubles on my skirting in my stairway. The house is only a few years old and a crack had formed up most of the staircase where it meets the wooden "skirting".
So, I picked off the caulk that was still in place - however the base of the wall is quite uneven in some places. I am presuming some of the plasterboard wall was damaged as I took the caulk off.
What would be the best method of smoothing all this out? I am thinking of using some fine wall filler for the base of the wall and sanding down....then applying caulking down the join between plasterboard and wooden skirt.
I am just worried that I may make it more uneven by using the filler.
Any advice would be helpful...my fiancée wants to kill me as my attempt to caulk the stairway is very uneven (To top it off I am in danger of her calling her dad up to do it - which quite frankly would make me feel even more emasculated than I already do!!
)
