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Reply With QuoteI think the standard thing to do with polished boards is to run quad around the bottom of the skirting to neaten things up. The only tip I have there is not to use the smallest one you can find, 6mm quad is a pain to nail down!
cant decide which avenue to take (flooring) This one is complicated, and i cant decide what to do.
We are looking at renting our house for a yeat whilst we go travelling, hence why it gets complicated
We moved into our house a year ago, removed the carpet and polished up the blackbutt floor boards, the boards werent in great condition, they came up ok but not great, definately acceptable though.
The issue comes with the skirting boards, they are in terrible condition, they are dinted and scratched, but the main issue is in some places you can see light coming through the bottom, IE there is like a 5mm gap, Also when the floors were sanded there is a few mm over lap of poly eurethaine, so i dont think i can gap fill and paint.
The house is rendered brick and i am concerned when removing the skirts the walls will crumble.
I really dont want to replace the skirts just yet, as i think we will relay the baords, because they are as great as we would like them. However i am concered if we were to do that before renting, the tennants might wreck the new boards.
Any suggestions?
sorry for the lenghty post
I think the standard thing to do with polished boards is to run quad around the bottom of the skirting to neaten things up. The only tip I have there is not to use the smallest one you can find, 6mm quad is a pain to nail down!
Cheers,
Anthony
You can run quad of some sort - there are a range of profile (I use a 19mm one), but there is no reason you can't use a gap filler. You can use a colour matched filler then paint the skirting down to the floor. Mask up to get a good line.
Originally Posted by Bloss
Ditto
Hooroo.
Regards, Trevor
Grafton
A friend of mine has a rental property with polished floors, before it was let out, he carpeted the whole house with carpet squares. They have the underlay built in and if the tennants damaged any they could be lifted and replaced or moved to a less visable spot.
This would be a cheap way to insure the timber floors, new or existing remain as you left them.
As for the skirtings, I don't get the problem. If they are scratched and dented but can't be removed, the only choice you have is to fill and paint, it looks great with timber floors. And as for the gaps, I had gaps that varied between 1 and 12mm on the same wall so I made a cover piece in the same profile as the skirting and fitted it prior to painting.
Cheers
Alan M
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