Plaster and skirting boards

[onlyagirl]

It's me again. More weird stuff I've noticed about my new (old) house. It has been replastered and rewired. However the plaster (or plasterboard) is flush with the top of the skirting boards. The skirting is also very cold and the external walls are also very cold with even colder spots here and there. I know that they did knock off the original plaster, because it was under the floorboards; along with gingsters pie tins and half a curly wurly.

 

[foxhole]

Is there a question?

 

[longdogs]

This was done in some old houses where there is a gap between the skirting and the wall. They would first hammer wooden wedges into the mortar joints then fix the skirting to these wedges. These days the plaster generally goes down to the floor (or almost) and the skirting is put on top.

have a read of this: http://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/fixing-skirtingboard-the-traditional-way-t68615.html

The Ginster's pie tins are normal and usually accompanied by crisp packets, coke bottles and newspapers from the seventies advertising Kenning Van Hire.

 

[gregers]

and the copious old fag packets.

best thing i found was a box of rook scarers,1 was missing by golly they were loud.