A few weeks ago I fitted some new skirting boards in two large rooms. The first room I did the way I have done many times before, mitred mid wall joints and corners mitred then scribed, then attached with grip fill and nails. I cut each mitre with a hand saw using a standard mitre box. A couple of days later, when I did the second room, my mate was round doing some building work for me, I borrowed his top of the line DeWalt compound mitre saw and nail gun to use in my task.
Now when you look at either room, the skirting looks perfect (I'm very good with wood
), 9 out of 10 people wouldn't notice any difference at all, but if you look very very closely there is a difference, the hand cut mitres might be half a degree out as one may get using a mitre box, but every cut was perfect using the mitre saw.
The tools I used cost over a grand and I wouldn't personally buy them for myself as I don't see them as presenting good value for me, this doesn't mean that they don't enable
me with
my skill level to do a better job, albeit with very fine margins.