Easiest shaped skirting to get good finish ???

[Tampon]

I have a small window of time to get the bottom of my house skirting boarded having ripped the old stuff off to lay the oak floor........last summer.

The wife now wants the skirting up this weekend and I have never done it before although know how to swing a screwdriver.

Main thing I cannot be arsed but have to so I am looking to make it a swift and easy to get a good finish as I can. I have been looking at the different shapes and understand the scribing with a coping saw for internal joints, using the sliding mitre saw for the external angles.

I am looking for the easiest, most forgiving shape, with out it looking "council house". So I am thinking chamfered for ease but I like the torus as well. Big difference in forgiveness of them ? Any recommendations ?

[Sharted]

Do you have any flooring left over?

My fitter made skirting boards out of leftover boards, from memory he rounded off the tongue side and laid the groove side onto the new boards.

[Tampon]

Sharted said:

Do you have any flooring left over?

My fitter made skirting boards out of leftover boards, from memory he rounded off the tongue side and laid the groove side onto the new boards.

Good idea but it is engineered oak so 5mm oak and then layers of wood and not really nice to look at.

[Sharted]

Tampon said:

Good idea but it is engineered oak so 5mm oak and then layers of wood and not really nice to look at.

Ah, no wouldn't work without some kind of quadrant to hide the base.

[MrV]

bit late but 6x1 with a staff beading on top is an easy non council looking skirting to do