I will shortly be buying new skirting board following an electrical & re plaster job in my daughters bedroom.
This will be "all new " -no matching required.
A recce at B & Q has shown that I can get either MDF or timber.
Any thoughts on pros & cons ?
Apart from facts that
MDF is factory primed and Timber is cheaper.
I will be using approx 167 mm depth with Torus ,or similar, profile.
presumably MDF does not need aclimatising to the room atmoshere as I imagine Timber would.?
I will need to do a join in one wall lenth as max length seems to be 2.4 mts. I would recon to do this by "mitreing" - overlapping diagonal cuts - to disguise the join ?
Also - I read that the conventional wisdom for internal corners is not to mitre but to profile one board , with a fret saw or similar , to fit against the other which is cut straight.
But iIs this only if mitreing is difficult ? I will be using my compound mitre saw - subject to any advice here - amd would therfore expect to get a neat mitre for an internal corner - there are no external corners on this job . Or am I being naive ? or are there other reasons to use profiling on internal corners ?
Thanks
Richard