On 14 May, 19:46, Owain wrote:
wrote:
Rubber moulds are one way to do it, though running plaster in situ is
a more logical approach in most cases, and is how it was mostly done
in the Victorian days of fancy cornicing.
But the idea that anyone could make a business out of it is laughable.

Weren't there garden gnome and statue moulds sold in the 1980s with the
same idea?

Owain

Those are saleable though. Hand made plaster cornice, at the sort of
steep prices one has to charge for the amount of labour that goes into
it, occupies a market size of approximately zero. And rubber casting
the cornice wipes out much of the potential market, as the kind of
houses it suits routinely have less than flat walls, just one of the
reasons running in situ was popular in Vic times.


NT