Skim before window board?

[jayc89]

Dropped a ball with the internal window boards, they won't be here for another couple of weeks. Can I PB the rest of the reveal, have that skimmed and slide the window board in later? I assume, ideally, the PB would sit on top of the board?

[Dave Jones]

id leave the reveals until you have the boards. will look much better than trying to caulk it.

 

Are they special as mdf window boards are allways available from the merchies.

[jayc89]

Walls are pretty deep, need 350mm boards. Deepest I can find locally are 300, which wouldn't provide any overhang. 

[Dave Jones]

cutwrights offer a very fast service, they will cut them all to width and length. just need to router the returns.

 

https://www.cutwrights.com/

 

[ProDave]

I did our window boards after plastering.  Mainly because we had not decided what to use.

 

I left a "slot" in the PB at the bottom of each side for the window board, a bit smaller than I thought was needed.  When I eventually fitted the boards I had to trim a little off that with the multitool to slide the boards in, and then there was a little filling with caulk afterwards.

[jayc89]

Window board on and skimmed last week. The finish looks pretty rough to me, appreciate around the window board will be a PITA as there isn't much room, but there's rough to the touch bits around all of the window reveal.

The guy who did it said the reveal needs a light rub down and he's coming back to look at the bits around the window board. 

Am I being OTT?

[Dave Jones]

would have extended the cill to the wall rather than leave a little  gap. Doesnt look that bad in fairness, decent decorator will polish it up.

[jayc89]

Just now, Dave Jones said:

would have extended the cill to the wall rather than leave a little  gap. Doesnt look that bad in fairness, decent decorator will polish it up.

 

In hindsight that would have been a better idea. Luckily I don't have any more narrow rooms to content with.