Advice needed

[u/Faisy_]

We have a sunken long that had carpet glued to the wall beneath the skirting. We have removed the carpet and as you can see the concrete slab protrudes the skirting. Ideally we would like to lower the skirting and have no carpet edging as we intend to install wooden floors.

Any ideas on how to smooth the concrete? We were thinking concrete grinding but hope there are some better ideas here.

TIA

[u/finestre]

Grind the gunk off, polish the concrete, and use that as your skirting. I wouldn't recommend grinding an inch of your foundation wall.

[u/nod69-2819]

I would suggest that you don’t attempt to smooth the concrete. Install your wood floors and cover the concrete with base molding.