Hi,
I've recently redone the floor in a first floor bedroom, and am soon going to be replacing the skirtings. Being a Victorian terraced house, the old skirtings were attached to wooden battens nailed to the wall; while I could recreate this it seems needlessly complicated, particularly since they'd probably have to be individually sized to get them to support the skirtings fully.
Instead it has been suggested to me that I could just fill the gap (to within an inch or so of the floor) with bonding plaster, and then simply screw the skirting directly to this. This sounds great, but I have two concerns:
1) The gap is quite deep - between 15 and 25mm in most places. Is this too thick to plaster? Will I need multiple coats, or is there a product I can use to do it in one go (I obviously don't care about the finish)?
2) One wall has been dry lined at some point. The gap between the brickwork and the front edge of the plaster varies between 25mm and nearly 50mm(!) I guess plastering this directly would be daft. Would dry lining this gap with long low strips of plasterboard and then going over with bonding work here? I suppose at that point I might be better off just making my variable width wooden battens :-/
Many thanks,
Lucian
I've recently redone the floor in a first floor bedroom, and am soon going to be replacing the skirtings. Being a Victorian terraced house, the old skirtings were attached to wooden battens nailed to the wall; while I could recreate this it seems needlessly complicated, particularly since they'd probably have to be individually sized to get them to support the skirtings fully.
Instead it has been suggested to me that I could just fill the gap (to within an inch or so of the floor) with bonding plaster, and then simply screw the skirting directly to this. This sounds great, but I have two concerns:
1) The gap is quite deep - between 15 and 25mm in most places. Is this too thick to plaster? Will I need multiple coats, or is there a product I can use to do it in one go (I obviously don't care about the finish)?
2) One wall has been dry lined at some point. The gap between the brickwork and the front edge of the plaster varies between 25mm and nearly 50mm(!) I guess plastering this directly would be daft. Would dry lining this gap with long low strips of plasterboard and then going over with bonding work here? I suppose at that point I might be better off just making my variable width wooden battens :-/
Many thanks,
Lucian