On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:39:39 +0100, Dave wrote:
Is it just me who is thick, or does anyone else get the angle 90 degrees
out? I was doing some skirting work a couple of years ago and got it
wrong a couple of times before I realised what I was doing wrong.

Yeah, I screwed that up once, too, doing one of the kids' bedrooms. That
was before I had the mitre saw here (I moved to the US in 2007, and all
my original tool collection's still in the UK and probably uneconomical
to ever ship - grr), so I was cutting by hand using a little 45-degree jig
that I'd made. Luckily the bit I messed up was long enough to use
elsewhere in the room, and I'd bought a whole bundle of skirting anyway
(90% of which is still in my workshop - fitting it to other rooms is one
of those round tuit jobs)

I since read you're not supposed to make mitre joins for skirting though
if possible - one piece is supposed to be cut straight and the other done
with a coping saw to follow the contour of the first, presumably to create
some kind of sliding joint so that any expansion or contraction of the
skirting doesn't produce either a bowing effect or result in a big gap
showing up at the mitre. Be interesting to know if folk do go to that
much trouble though, or if they just use a regular mitre join! :-)

cheers

Jules