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Any advice on filling those mitered picture rail joints? Or were yours so clean that they didn't require any filler?
I'm in the middle of fitting a new rail around my sitting room. Some sections had to be flexible as I have three curved sections.
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I bought a digital angle metre on Amazon. About £25 I think, but very handy for accurate measurements. Had to sit the rail into the plaster in places to get it to sit fairly flat along the rest of the length. Just cut slightly on the long side and the mitre saw allows you to take off mm at a time. Cut, screw on, measure, take off, cut 2mm more etc etc. Then a blob of mastic between the corners when finally ready to fix. A decent power mitre saw and a way of accurately measuring angles are the thing.
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Ongoing work on my lounge. When we got here, there was a damp problem on a couple of the walls. So has a membrane installed and dry-lined (not DIY) Then stripped wallpaper and patched up the plaster on the other 2 walls. New plasterboard was proud of the picture rail so took that out and battoned around the top and fix new picture rail onto that (thank you Lidl £80 mitre saw) harder than it should have been because the top of the new plaster was all over the place and walls curved (the guy did it quickly and cheaply to be fair). Today I decided I couldn't live with the crappy old picture rail on the remaining walls, so I'll replace that too. Painting before installation has made things much easier. Then repaint above rail, touch up walls, plane the door so it shuts, pull old carpet up, replace crappy floorboards, install cable channels underfloor, sand floor, treat floor, install new skirting.... done! I'm slow and it's a learning curve, but I feel like I'm slowly starting to get somewhere.