It’s best to remove the skirting boards, a simple job, they are just nailed to the wall with cut nails and with a little car can be removed intact. Not only a far neater job but a gap can be allowed between the flooring and the wall. The flooring can then slide under the skirting boards as it expands Or contracts. If tiling always lay flooring first for the same reason. Important also to allow the flooring to come up to room temperature before laying. Then the flooring will have already expanded to something like its maximum dimensions
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