How Do You Fix Skirting Boards Easily In Older Style Properties?
Fitting skirting board nowadays is a whole lot easier to the difficulties faced many years ago when the design of houses was a little different to that of today. One of the difficulties usually faced is that the finish on the wall usually stops about 6 or 7 inches from the floorboard. This was done on purpose as it would stop any bridging of the DPC in place thus stopping damp from working its way up the wall. Fitting the skirting board would cover the exposed brickwork showing at the bottom of the wall. Easier said than done though! Even though you can attach fixings into the top of the skirting board, due of the gap at the bottom of the wall between the plaster end and floorboard, it’s hard to get a fixing point without the bottom of the skirting board ‘moving in’. To solve this problem, many of the older builders from years back would chop out of timber, what is know as twisted plugs. These are essentially timber plugs that would be cut from say three by one inch timber and then ham
