Skirting and plaster?!??

[Rabsy]

We are currently in the process of refurbishing a 1960s house. We've been quite please with how the plaster is underneath the wallpaper/anoglypta, and so was trying to avoid having to do a full repeater, however we desperately want to change the skirt and architrave. When we came to remove some of it last night, it seems that the skirting and architrave was fitted before plastering and it seems to be attached to the block underneath, no plasterboard or anything.

Were replacing the skirting with a taller version (5"), would we have to replaster the entire wall, where we want to replace the skirting and architrave? Or are there any better (cheaper) suggestions out there?

 

[joe-90]

Just pull the old stuff off and make wooden wedges to pack out and bring the new stuff out to the level that you want, or if you prefer, simply put dollops of plasterboard adhesive on the wall where you want the skirting to go, then press until the skirting is in the desired place and leave for a while. Then when set, drill through the dollop here and there and fasten with screws.