Hmm, good intentions certainly, but as most corners are seldom at right
angles and often not even vertical, quite a luxury I'd suggest.
One place I went the new conservatory had not bothered to do this at the
corners, just shoved one board over the other and capped the skirting with a
plastic angle piece, mitred at the corners. Of course the line across and
down did not now match, but nobody seemed to care. Is this the slipping of
standards, bad plastering or what one wonders.
And before you ask why I was on my hands and knees on the floor of someone
elses house, I was trying to find an audio lead for their stereo.
That is my story anyway!
Brian

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"James Harris" wrote in message
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Any general recommendations on tools for cutting skirting boards? Skirting
can be taller than most things we might want to mitre. For skirting the
three options I can think of, along with their problems, are

* Buy a mitre box. Unfortunately the mitre boxes I have seen do not seem
tall enough, being only about 90mm high so too short even for 120mm
skirting.

* Buy a manual mitre saw. An OK piece of meccano but specialised and
bulky.

* Buy an electric mitre saw. Might come in handy for other work and I may
well need to buy one of these at some point but they do tend to be big and
heavy. Space is the main problem.

The alternative is to make my own mitre box and cut the skirting using it.

Thoughts?

James