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It's a relatively simple job to fit skirting but it should be scribed to the floor. Depending on the age of the building the floor, even a new one, will have some undulations. You should buy skirting tall enough to be able to trim the maximum amount that the floor varies from the base of the skirting. Then you decide what height the skirting should actually be and whether it should be level or level with the floor, (some victorian buildings slope quite a bit).
Once you have scribed it you can cut it with a jigsaw, it helps to trim it at an angle away from the face of the skirting so it's then easy to plane any small amounts off the cut edge. Now your boards should fit your floors. You can then glue them to the walls with solvent free no more nails or similar and fill along the top edge with decorators mastic. Now you need to paint the skirting, prime it first, the primer can overlap on to the walls, possibly add undercoat. Now paint the walls and then mask the walls and finish painting the skirting.
Really you should leave the plaster to dry for a few months before adding the skirting and certainly before painting it. Plasterers and decorators might disagree about this but decorators get to see the results years later where paint is not really bonded with the walls.
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Laying a laminate/hardwood floor as part of a complete overhaul of a room...
Plasterers are coming early Jan, so won't have a flooring supplier queued up until... sometime after that.
I'd like the boards to go under the skirting, but obviously(?) we'll need to remove the skirting boards in order to do that. Given that the plasterer is also planning to fit the skirting at the same time, the skirting is going to have to come off in order to fit the boards.
Is the right answer simply to have the skirting prepared and painted, fit the floor and then have the boards fitted on last, just before painting the walls?
Or is the right answer to plaster, paint the room, fit the flooring and then put the skirting on? I'm presuming it's fairly standard practice for a flooring fitter to fit skirting?
Sorry, all dumb/first timer questions...