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A bit like my learned friend VKurup, i have recently moved house and am probably going to ask lots of questions!

Quick one for now, ripped off the old skirting boards and door architraves, new ones on order. But some of them left a horrible great hole in the plasterboard, right through to the breeze blocks. Partly due i think to the 6 inch nails used to fix the old ones!! Some of the work in this house is truly awful... Anyway...

Do I A. Cut out bad sections and reboard it (i have plasterboard!) or B. just fill it (give it a number of passes to allow decent drying etc, any suggestions on what to fill with? plaster, filler, cement!? Chewing gum)

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I'd cut off the the broken bits at the bottom and just replasterboard that. Shouldn't need jointing tape as you can just fill with normal polyfiller. The just sand and put new skirting in that.

Only thing you might struggle with is attaching the board to the blocks as they look a bit crumbly. Could use some dot and dab adhesive as that will fill around the gaps in the block.
 
To add, new skirting will be higher than the old one, so i dont need a brilliant finish, just a decent backing for the new skirting boards..
 
Alls I would add to above post is when taking the plasterboard off, draw a vertical line and cut with an old hand saw (or preferably a pad saw if you have one) checking for sneaky wires and pipes that shoudnt be there but often are, as you go. Just keeps things neater.

Also because it looks like a concrete floor, when replacing pb make sure you raise it off the floor so you dont get any transference of damp. Easiest way is to cut 2small pieces of pb for each end, bang the reolacement pb on top, wait to set, remove packer. Jobs a goodun.

It took longer to write this reply than to actually do the job...
 
Rooter said:
To add, new skirting will be higher than the old one, so i dont need a brilliant finish, just a decent backing for the new skirting boards..
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My old house had these problems all I did was get the loose stuff out and filled it with plaster then smoothed it out so when fixing with no more nails it had something to adhere too,no expert but it did the job.
 
Fill with backing plaster (hardwall or tough coat). Allow to set.
Finish with multi finish.
pva before applying both.
 
davemc1 said:
Alls I would add to above post is when taking the plasterboard off, draw a vertical line and cut with an old hand saw (or preferably a pad saw if you have one) checking for sneaky wires and pipes that shoudnt be there but often are, as you go. Just keeps things neater.
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Why draw a vertical line, don't you mean horizontal?
 
Rooter said:
A bit like my learned friend VKurup, i have recently moved house and am probably going to ask lots of questions!

Quick one for now, ripped off the old skirting boards and door architraves, new ones on order. But some of them left a horrible great hole in the plasterboard, right through to the breeze blocks. Partly due i think to the 6 inch nails used to fix the old ones!! Some of the work in this house is truly awful... Anyway...

Do I A. Cut out bad sections and reboard it (i have plasterboard!) or B. just fill it (give it a number of passes to allow decent drying etc, any suggestions on what to fill with? plaster, filler, cement!? Chewing gum)

Pic below:

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you could use small pieces of plasterboard to bring level with plaster finish,attach with something like no nail,stick like **** or similar,let it harden then attach your larger skirting onto these fixing points and the top edge of skirting.
 
measure the depth left from face of p/b to thermolite blocks.
buy some roofing 2x1 and drill and fix this to the wall,these then become timber grounds.
then cut and fix your new skirts to the battens.
fixing skirts back with no more nails or the like only works on very flat walls,and VERY flat timber,and bow on twist and your on a loser.

and for info,

www.diynot.com

exelent forum for diy and building in general.
 
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