cutting mitres for skirting boards

retiredin2011

What is the best way to cut mitres in skirting boards for someone who has arthritis and can't use a hand saw very well?

missprice

Not sure if one of these would help
http://search.diy.com/search#w=mitre&asug=

Not even sure that link shows, copy and paste if not.
Cheapest is £5.98 and mine has done 4 rooms now and it still in one piece.
And I bought the cheapest cos I am tight.;)

Jonesya

Guess it depends on how many you're planning to cut and how much DIY you've got planned but a powered sliding-compound or compound mitre saw is a useful bit of kit.

mark-w20

You may already know this but anyway its Mitre joints only on external corners, scribe joints on internals. A mitre box is probably cheapest.

keystone

If you've got a lot to do save your hands and get someone in. You won't scribe internal corners using a mitre box and if you get one for external corners you need one that a) is deep enough for your skirting board either vertical or lying flat and b) has a 45° capability.

Cheers

-taff

personally, if I didn't have one, I'd hire a compound mitre saw.