I have some old skirting board I wish to remove which is fastened with old rusty nails, I dont want to damge half the plaster on my walls whats the best technique for removal.
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removing old skirting
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15 years ago
Assuming you're not bothered about the boards, split them either side of the nails with an expendable chisel and pry them off the nails. Then deal with the nails left poking out of the wall, if necessary by cutting back with an angle grinder or bending back and forth until they break.
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Sorry John - SNAP - I didn't see your reply until I'd posted mine. Great minds and all that ......
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When faced with a similar scenario I drilled around the nail until I'd exposed enough of the head to grip it with some carpenters pincers. As the force of levering it out was on the skirting itself the plaster was completely untouched
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Do have a 1/2" scarat cutter? if so take out the pilot center drill bit and attach the scarat cutter in the drill and drill a hole over the outer area of the nail and then all you have to do then is pull the 1/2" wooden circles of with wide jaw pliers.
This is assuming you know where the nails are? ;-)