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My thinking was that if you route channels you have to replaster anyway
Replace or preferably refurbish skirting just looks neater, but of course there's loads of factors.
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Yeah fair point - I'm not sure that part makes sense if they're also charging for chasing cables and making good - it feels like they're charging twice (plastering the whole room is one of the options, why would we also need to make good the chasing?)
I need to get another quote or two although reckon it might be difficult to ensure they are actually comparable since this includes a bit of a shopping list of things to do...
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Not necessarily. I just bond and then easy fill over chasing.
That’s not a bodge either.
andyfallsoff
Mr_Smyth
That part they did discuss - skirting looks original (so 100 years old) so they suggested an extra panel (up to where the contours start but then scribed to the floorboard) would be neater than pulling it all off, risking taking all the plaster off the wall.
Not sure speaker cables through the skirts will work as they need to go round a fireplace - I'd thought we would run those into the void under the boards but then I don't see why that's £900 of chasing into the walls...