Got to put a new door frame in a hallway to create a porch. Really don't want top remove the skirting board. What's the best solution for cutting thru the board nice and clean/straight?? I've made a bit of a bodge of this in the past so any advice appreciated. Presumably a Fein m/master would do it but I'm reluctant to spend the money unless I have too...
You've bought a new door and frame so why not go the whole hog and buy a length of skirting for a fiver rather than fiddling about cutting the existing?
If you are putting an architrave or quadrant around the frame, cut the skirting roughly where the architrave will cover it, then scribe the architrave around the remaining skirting. It'll look exactly the same. Mr. HandyAndy - really
How do you cut the skirting in situ with a tenon saw without cutting into the plaster/wallpaper or hitting the floor.If you have to cut the skirting mark it square drill holes with a flat bit on the waste side then cut neatly with a chisel
use a bicky jointer an drill an chisel the bottom bit,or mark a plumb line an drill out then chisel out 2 finnished line (scored of course )
How do you cut the skirting in situ with a tenon saw without cutting into the plaster/wallpaper or hitting the floor. very carefully mate!
ease the skirting off the wall a wee bit to stop you hitting the wall!!! i personaly nail a batton on the front to give you a strait edge to saw down and use a tennon saw i have used a jigsaw with reasonable results but you finnish up with dents where your holding the nose of the base plate so tightly to the skirting to stop it jumping as you drop the back down to cut through you also have to reposition an inch higher as you cut through you also have to make sure the end off the blade dosnt hit any thing big all
Ive got a jigsaw blade i cut down to about an inch at max reach! YEEE HAAA o and drill n chisel the botom.
If you are putting an architrave or quadrant around the frame, cut the skirting roughly where the architrave will cover it, then scribe the architrave around the remaining skirting. It'll look exactly the same. Mr. HandyAndy - really for the love of god andy what planet are you circumnavigating now????? the architrave butts up against the end of the skirting it does not cover it. i find it is easier to take the skirt off and cut and replace. if not jus get a stiff blade saw and plod away. some things ijn life are a pain and not easy to do well. this is one.
I think you'll find, Sid, that this door is the only partition to a hallway,ie wall to wall, otherwise there would be no skirting cutting going on. Mr. HandyAndy - really