On 04.07.17 08:44, Ray via luv-main wrote:
Thanks for all the replies, it was a good discusion, I'll likely go for one of craigs suggestions, put a runner carpet down the hall with a couple of cat 5 cables under it, then run it around the skirting board to a RJ45 socket.
Once the skirting board is off, with a medium breaking bar, or even a cat's paw if the nails come out fairly easily¹, it can be enough to deeply chamfer the lower rear arris with a (power) plane, if a router isn't to hand, to make a nice fat rebate. There will also be much greater risk of splintering tearout in old dry hardwood skirting board, with the router. If it's MDF, then that's no issue, I figure. (I've only dealt with hardwood, though.) The router's handy for curving a groove up to the cutout for the RJ45 socket, but a nice sharp 6mm chisel can do wonders, whacked often enough. Nobody will see the back. Erik (Who profiled all his skirting and architraves from plain KDH, when he was young and daft, and KDH was affordable.) ¹ Levering only at the wall studs, to avoid going through the plasterboard.