How to fill the gap between an architrave and a wall?

[Paul Moore]

I've made the door frame, hung the door, made the architraving, now I want
to put up the architraving. It's a door between the living room and the
hall.

The problem is that, due to a poor plastering job, the wall that the
architraving will go onto is not straight, in some places the wall thickness
is 12 cm, in others it's about 10.5 cm. Fortunately the non-true wall
surface is on the hall side of the door. I made the door frame to be flush
with the wall at its thickest point, htis means that when I put on the
architraving, I'm going to have a gap of up to 1.5 cm between the door and
the wall.

Any ideas about how to fill the gap? I forgot to mention that the door is
rounded at the top, hence the home-made architraving.

I was thinking of either:
- trying to cut out a thin strip of wood to match the contour of the gap,
then fill any remaining gaps with polyfilla, and then run a line of
paintable silicone along the join between the architraving and the wall
- mark a line where the outside edge of the architraving will meet the wall,
then cut out in the plaster a channel wide enough to take a layer of wood to
fill the gap. The advantage with this is that the contour of the wood can be
thicker than the gap to be filled, since it will be inserted into the
channel in the plaster. Once tthis is done, the crack can then be filled in
with polyfilla. The other advantage is that cracks in the future is also
less likely.
-uisng mastic, but is the gap too wide to fill in?

Thanks in advance for any advice.
Paul

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Paul Moore
paul....@pandora.be

[Steve Walker]

"Paul Moore" <polo...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:9Bfk7.31406$6x5.6...@afrodite.telenet-ops.be...

> I've made the door frame, hung the door, made the architraving, now I want
> to put up the architraving. It's a door between the living room and the
> hall.
>

> architraving, I'm going to have a gap of up to 1.5 cm between the door and
> the wall.

Easiest to buy some cartridges of flexible filler (eg screwfix 2533) and
fill it. Do 3-4 runs, allowing for drying inbetween. Start right at the
back of the gap so you have a solid wedge of material rather than a thin
strip (you could fill most of the space with newspaper and fill the last
10mm or so, but it doesn't save you much). On the last run, use a wetted
finger, teaspoon, blade whatever to give a pleasing profile. Then paint or
paper over it.