Architrave over proud skim

[geraldthehamster]

I had my hallway reskimmed, and am now fitting architrave and
skirting. The new skim sits proud of the door casing by up to a
quarter of an inch, so simply pinning the architrave to the exposed
bit of the casing angles it in towards the door, leaving a gap between
skim and architrave on the outside.

I'm simply pinning pieces of folded cardboard over the door casing, to
level approx. with the skim, pinning up the architrave through it, and
aiming to fill the gap where the cardboard is with caulk, before
decorating. I'll have done it before anyone replies, but wondered if
anyone had an alternative approach.

Cheers
Richard

[Cash]

Rebate the back of the architrave over the plaster.

But to be honest, if you have had the plastering professionally done, I
would get the 'spread' back to do the job properly - unless of course he
followed your instructions - as it appears that the rendering has been too
thickly applied or laid on top the existing.

Cash.

[geraldthehamster]

On Oct 4, 3:37 pm, "Cash" <.............\\@...............//.com>
wrote:

Far too much faff to start rebating the architrave. He was asked to
reskim over the original skim-over-render, which had various holes and
damage in it, and did warn me beforehand that there would be some
buildup over the door casing, so he's not done anything amiss. It
wouldn't have been feasible to remove the old skim.

Cheers
Richard

[John Rumm]

If you don't mind it acquiring a more ornate look, then the simple
solution it to use a small 1/4" spacer timber. Pin it to the frame like
it were an architrave - however it does not need to be very wide and
hence can miss the plaster. Then pin the real architrave to that - but
set back a little. It creates an additional "step" in the finish - which
is not unattractive if you like that sort of thing.

See here:

http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php?title=Hanging_a_door#Fitting_the_architraves

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Cheers,

John.

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[geraldthehamster]

On Oct 4, 6:01 pm, John Rumm <see.my.signat...@nowhere.null> wrote:

> If you don't mind it acquiring a more ornate look, then the simple
> solution it to use a small 1/4" spacer timber. Pin it to the frame like
> it were an architrave - however it does not need to be very wide and
> hence can miss the plaster. Then pin the real architrave to that - but
> set back a little. It creates an additional "step" in the finish - which
> is not unattractive if you like that sort of thing.

Thanks John. I think that would have been my solution, if I'd had
suitable timber to hand. I hadn't thought in terms of making the
design more interesting, and in retrospect wish I'd gone and got some,
fitted that and cut the architrave larger! Shows the value of waiting
for an answer...

I think what I have done will look OK though, once I've filled the
gaps.

Cheers
Richard

[Andrew Gabriel]

In article <a54683de-44ad-4322...@p9g2000vbl.googlegroups.com>,

You don't normally remove skirting/architrave when reskimming,
for exactly this reason. You skim up to the edge of it.

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Andrew Gabriel
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[Stuart Noble]

It's what I would have done. Architrave and skirting rarely sit
perfectly on new plastering so in principle you adjust the plaster
rather than the wood.

[geraldthehamster]

On Oct 5, 10:27 am, and...@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel)
wrote:

> You don't normally remove skirting/architrave when reskimming,
> for exactly this reason. You skim up to the edge of it.

A fair point. However, in this case I'm replacing tiny 1960s skirt and
arc with more attractive, deeper ogee. I suppose I could have fitted
them before skim, but I'm not sure that's the canonical way to do
it...

Cheers
Richard