Month: July 2009

Answer:

Knock off the bits of dry plaster, othewise you will be spreading a lot of plaster dust with the sanding. A dull knife or plastic spatula would do the job.
A sander with a bag is a great idea, if you value your lungs. It will come in handy for other things later. The lower price “handyman” model would do your job fine, you don’t need a “professional” model as you won’t be using it 8 hours a day. There is a shaped sander available, shaped like the bottom of an iron. The point of this can get into grooving in the skirtings. For very tiny grooves you would have to use hand-sanding paper, folded to be using the edge. They don’t need to be totally stripped back to bare wood.

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A molded skirting board, and how to cut crown molding, or other decorative moldings simulating natural wood millwork, and a method of molding a loose cellulosic mat, in a single pressing step, to provide one or more relatively high density, skirting boards without requiring preliminary pressing, or other pre-shaping step, such as scalping. The molded articles are molded in a conventional, multi-opening fiberboard press to produce multiple, interconnected parts in a single pressing step process, while achieving excellent transfer of mold detail (embossing fidelity) without visually noticeable fiber fracture. A corrugated or L-shaped, hidden stiffening/positioning member spaces the article from a wall or ceiling to simulate thick, heavier, natural wood mouldings

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