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In this situation I would use acrylic caulk apply it as normal and then use cheap wet wipes wrapped around your finger to clean the excess off. That stuff is water soluble until dry so it's much easier to get a good even finish on less than optimal joins. Just make sure that you change the wet wipe when the excess caulk starts building up on it.
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it's not something where caulk would normally perform well.
you could replace the baseboard, but that not simple and would need paint as well as new matching baseboard.
you could get small thin strip of wood and augment the existing baseboard taking care to appose the floor well, then paint.
I would personally leave it alone.
unfortunately removing that caulk is going to be near impossible.
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Caulking/silicone-ing the junction between skirting and floor has been a bit of a disaster...
Both the floors and walls are not remotely straight, hence trying to fill the gaps. The skirting-wall junction isn't so bad, but even having used masking tape - the floor's undulations, voids behind where it meets the wall, and likely lack of good technique on my part - means it's come out really rough.
Most of the walls of this room (just the one room done so far) will be covered by furniture, so not the end of the world - but all ears if anyone can see something obvious I've missed or if there's a tricky to sort this kind of thing out (stanley knife to cut away the bits that stick out, and another quick , thin layer of caulk to try and make it more uniform?)
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