Toom Tabard wrote:
On 29 Mar, 00:15, Clare wrote:
Hi there. We *were* planning to put coving up in our lounge.

As per the instructions we have just drawn a level line on the top of
the walls all the way around the room... and discovered there is a 5cm
difference between the place where the ceiling is lowest and where the
ceiling is highest.

So if we put the coving up level, on some parts of the room there will
need to be 5cm filled above the coving. I'm worried this will look at
bit odd. But then if we put the coving up to follow the ceiling it
will be wonky too and that might look odd.

Should we put the coving up level, or following the ceiling, or not
put it up at all?

The house is old-ish (1900s) so nothing is very level (eg the window
recesses), though we've just had the floor redone so that is level now.

By a level line, do you mean a horizontal line. Is there a gradual
rise over the length of the room?
Filling in up to 2 inches is going to look very strange.

I'd still rather have the coving a set distance from the floor. If the
ceiling is the same colour as the cove, I doubt your eye would be drawn
to it. It certainly isn't where gaps behind skirting have been filled,
but 2" might be pushing it a bit

If you measure the coving fitting line down from the ceiling, does
that give you a reasonably straight line on each wall even if it isn't
horizontal?If it's a gradual rise from one end to the other rather
than a really wavy ceiling, then the best straight (not horizontal)
line might need only small differences in the thickness of the coving
fixative to cope with any minor waviness. The coving would be straight
but not horizontal, and you might need coving corner pieces to cover
up less than square meeting at corners.

You'd need to chose wallpaper that didn't have a horizontal pattern
lines which would show the rise, but that also
applies to the situation at present without the coving.

Toom