I want to fit new skirting boards. My problem is that the bottom 4-5 inches of the walls are not plastered (though the rest of them are). Obviously if I can use a 6- 8 inch skirting board it will cover this strip of bare brick, but does anyone know the easiest way to attach the board? Perhaps I should nail wooden batons to the brick and then nail/screw/ glue the skirting boards onto those, but the size of the gap may mean that I have to plane the batons a lot to get them to the right thickness, and that could be a lot of work. Alternatively, perhaps I should put a few blobs of plaster (or some other kind of filler?) at intervals along the wall, hold them in place with bits of wood positioned where the boards will go until it dries, and then remove this frame and nail/glue the skirting boards onto the dry blobs of plaster? (I’m not much of a plasterer, but could probably manage that.) Any advise gratefully received! Thanks.