cant decide which avenue to take (flooring)

This one is complicated, and i cant decide what to do.

We are looking at renting our house for a yeat whilst we go travelling, hence why it gets complicated

We moved into our house a year ago, removed the carpet and polished up the blackbutt floor boards, the boards werent in great condition, they came up ok but not great, definately acceptable though.

The issue comes with the skirting boards, they are in terrible condition, they are dinted and scratched, but the main issue is in some places you can see light coming through the bottom, IE there is like a 5mm gap, Also when the floors were sanded there is a few mm over lap of poly eurethaine, so i dont think i can gap fill and paint.

The house is rendered brick and i am concerned when removing the skirts the walls will crumble.

I really dont want to replace the skirts just yet, as i think we will relay the baords, because they are as great as we would like them. However i am concered if we were to do that before renting, the tennants might wreck the new boards.

Any suggestions?

sorry for the lenghty post


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