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alan_m wrote:

Today I decided to fit a bit of plastic trim around a window opening
prior to tiling the same. I measured the opening, marked up the trim and
offered up the trim to the opening before cutting. It's the correct
length but I cut both mitres in the same direction!!!


Easily done. Now, I tend to draw on the mitre roughly in pencil. So you
are reminded when you cut.

Think that got be going was fitting ornamental coving in a room with a
pair of chimney breasts. Not only which way the mitre went, but which way
up for the coving, and which side of the mark was the waste. Given the
long lengths and using a circular saw bench with not enough clearance
either end for a full length.

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