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Just shoddy.Sadly I’ve lost this battle. I met with the joiner this morning and he looked at me like o was crazy.
He said there’s so much glue on the architrave they can never move and the decorator will take care of all of these gaps.
On big decorative archs like that I stick biscuits in. I'm sure we all have our own methods, but mine is to cut the sides, mitre, slot for biscuit, fix. Cut a header with the base dimension say +1-2mm wide and the top edge slightly longer so the mitres are slightly splayed wide. Hold in position and note how much slivvering (is that a word) needs taking off on the left side to get a perfect mitre, slice off the sliver on the mitre saw to true the mitre, hold in position and note how much needs slivvering off t'other side, trim, insert biscuits, glue and fix.
I also don't have pin/nail heads showing like that - I pin down the casing edge and otherwise use a grab adhesive.