On 13 Oct 2008 15:18:59 GMT, (Andrew
Gabriel) wrote:

In article ,
Cordless Crazy writes:

When skimming walls in order to bring a plaster finish up to a better
standard, what happens at reveal and external corners? Do new mini
thin-coat angle bead/mini mesh get fixed or simply use a corner
trowel?

Depends how good you are at plastering. Using plasterboard beading
is easiest. Next easiest is to fix a piece of wide timber to one
wall overhanging the corner so you can plaster up to it from the
other wall like it is an internal corner (this generates a razor
sharp external corner which you'll probably want to sand down).
An external corner trowel is probably the hardest of the 3 ways,
and getting the edge straight is hard. (Note they need wearing in
when you buy them -- they won't work well straight off the shelf.)
They're useful for repairing damaged external corners.

If the corner is likely to be subject to things bashing into it,
plasterboard beading will give best protection.

Anyone use this Screwfix product for corners?:

http://tinyurl.com/3v4nbt

Never seen it before. Can't actually imagine how it can work.

It's just tape with two metal sections stuck on in the middle( the
grey parts with a very small gap between) which you fold over and
fix to the corner of the wall and plaster over it .
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...e/IMG_9189.jpg