Word from my pet-builder (well, my husband, anyway) - the gap between the floor and the wall? That's meant to be there, skirting board is there to hide that gap and is anywhere between 3 and 6 inches tall depending on the style in the rest of your house and is more to do with the plaster not coming down to the floor than the level of the floor itself. The reason that the plaster doesn't come all the way down to the floor is because when you are putting the plaster on, you don't want to pick up any dust from the floor when you are laying on the plaster, as that will result in an uneven finish with scratches and streaks in the polished plaster. This is what skirting board was invented for.
Same thing should go for the gap between the architrave around a door frame and the plaster on the wall - there should be a gap there that the architrave covers.
The skirting board is a second-fix joinery job - the key is to find out whether your contract includes second-fix joinery or not. I don't know off hand if Everest do joinery and decoration, or just conservatories, but it is worth checking the contract to see.
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Date: 2008-10-23 03:57 pm (UTC)Same thing should go for the gap between the architrave around a door frame and the plaster on the wall - there should be a gap there that the architrave covers.
The skirting board is a second-fix joinery job - the key is to find out whether your contract includes second-fix joinery or not. I don't know off hand if Everest do joinery and decoration, or just conservatories, but it is worth checking the contract to see.