Hi, have just had solid wood floors fitted in an old house. There are some large gaps under a few skirting boards - floor is bowed and max gap is about 15 mm tapering to 0 mm at the skirting board ends.
I do not want to use quadrant. The boards will be painted.
What is the best way to hide these gaps?
Many thanks.
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Strap a thing to a pencil so the lead is 15mm from the edge of the thing. Run this along the skirting board, it will copy the line of the floor onto it 15mm up. Cut along line, refit skirting perfectly. If this kirting meets other ok skirting, you will of course have to address the differing height by using bigger skirting to begin with or padding it with timber.
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I suppose you could scribe the boards, take them off, cut them, and put them back.
Robert
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What about Duck Tape?
Thank you for all the replies. For the larger gaps we went back and scribed the boards and adjacent boards.
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