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Plaster Mouldings - DIY!
If you are looking to add a touch of elegance and style to your own surroundings - how about fabricating and installing your own decorative plaster accents.
I have found architectural rubber moulds that are available for ceiling medallions, cornices, pillars and more. If you're not sure how, don't worry, your rubber moulds will come complete with an instructional dvd that will guide you every step of the way. You can even take this do it yourself project and turn it into a part time business that you can run out of your own home, in your spare time and whenever you want! |
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Plaster Mouldings - DIY!
On 13/05/2007 07:33, design77 wrote:
If you are looking to add a touch of elegance and style to your own surroundings You forgot the spam URL. |
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Plastered sapem Mould - DIY!
On May 13, 10:27 am, Andy Burns wrote:
On 13/05/2007 07:33, design77 wrote: If you are looking to add a touch of elegance and style to your own surroundings You forgot the spam URL. Unlabled cans are uncanditional. |
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Plaster Mouldings - DIY!
In message , design77
writes If you are looking to add a touch of elegance and style to your own surroundings - how about fabricating and installing your own decorative plaster accents. I have found architectural rubber moulds that are available for ceiling medallions, cornices, pillars and more. If you're not sure how, don't worry, your rubber moulds will come complete with an instructional dvd that will guide you every step of the way. You can even take this do it yourself project and turn it into a part time business that you can run out of your own home, in your spare time and whenever you want! The most useful thing to come out of diybanter - 6 foot rubber dick corniches and the website (which you are nothing to do with, but just a satisfied customer ) is ? -- geoff |
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Plaster Mouldings - DIY!
On May 14, 6:52 am, design77 wrote:
Hello Raden - This satisfied customer found information The most useful thing to come out of diybanter - 6 foot rubber dick corniches and the website (which you are nothing to do with, but just a satisfied customer ) is ? -- geoff -- design77 Design 77 is a website? Gotta be a Yank. They just got no-waddea |
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No, design77 is not a web site - and I am in Canada thanks!
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Plaster Mouldings - DIY!
On 13 May, 07:33, design77 wrote:
If you are looking to add a touch of elegance and style to your own surroundings - how about fabricating and installing your own decorative plaster accents. I have found architectural rubber moulds that are available for ceiling medallions, cornices, pillars and more. If you're not sure how, don't worry, your rubber moulds will come complete with an instructional dvd that will guide you every step of the way. You can even take this do it yourself project and turn it into a part time business that you can run out of your own home, in your spare time and whenever you want! 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. NT |
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Plaster Mouldings - DIY!
On Mon, 14 May 2007 19:46:17 +0100, 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 Yes. They pour concrete in them now and sell them in the town centre. |
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Plaster Mouldings - DIY!
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 |
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On May 14, 5:27 pm, wrote:
On 13 May, 07:33, design77 wrote: If you are looking to add a touch of elegance and style to your own surroundings - how about fabricating and installing your own decorative plaster accents. I have found architectural rubber moulds that are available for ceiling medallions, cornices, pillars and more. If you're not sure how, don't worry, your rubber moulds will come complete with an instructional dvd that will guide you every step of the way. You can even take this do it yourself project and turn it into a part time business that you can run out of your own home, in your spare time and whenever you want! 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. My brother-out-law used to work for a firm of fibrous plaster suppliers. They did make a business out of it (but each mold was a bespoke item for a specific customer job). He did DIY his cornices, but not in situ - he molded them on a bench, then lifted them in place after they set. His bathroom was pretty impressive too - it looked a bit like something from the Alamabra Palace (seconds from a job for an Arab Embassy I think). |
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I'm not sure what the walls have to do with the potential market, but the market is there. My husband and I are producing genuine plaster cornices for $.45 Canadian per foot and enjoy a profit of ten times that. As for the less than flat walls - the plaster mouldings can be fitted in wet.
There are many plaster moulding companies across Canada, the UK and the US. They are in business because they are making money. We did make a business out of this and we are laughing ... all the way to the bank! Quote:
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