Hi all,

I've managed to get about half way around my room but now I'm only
left with crooked walls - what do I do?? I have thought about nailing
the coving in place but one of my walls is like dust behind the
plaster.

Has anybody got any tips for me?

Cheers Mike

wrote:

Hi all,

I've managed to get about half way around my room but now I'm only
left with crooked walls - what do I do?? I have thought about nailing
the coving in place but one of my walls is like dust behind the
plaster.

Has anybody got any tips for me?

Cheers Mike

it used to be done by creating the coving in situ. A profiled board
was used to create the profile.

If youre just after a quick fix, dilute pva soaked into crumbly walls
firms them up quite well Soak it good and proper, and it'll take
days to dry right out.


NT

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it used to be done by creating the coving in situ. A profiled board
was used to create the profile.


Source?

If youre just after a quick fix, dilute pva soaked into crumbly walls
firms them up quite well Soak it good and proper, and it'll take
days to dry right out.


NT

wrote in message
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Hi all,

I've managed to get about half way around my room but now I'm only
left with crooked walls - what do I do?? I have thought about nailing
the coving in place but one of my walls is like dust behind the
plaster.

Has anybody got any tips for me?

Cheers Mike

Score a line the wideness of the plaster and hack it off where the coving
would fit.

Get some dry wall adhesive and dot&dab it on the back of the coving,push the
coving into place till it level with the existing coving you have done.
Then make good any discrepency with the adhesive or polyfilla ie
holes/gouges

On 25 Feb, 14:55, wrote:
Hi all,

I've managed to get about half way around my room but now I'm only
left with crooked walls - what do I do?? I have thought about nailing
the coving in place but one of my walls is like dust behind the
plaster.

Has anybody got any tips for me?

Cheers Mike

If the nails will hold (at least until the adhesive sets) and it will
pull the coving in so that there are no significant gaps, then I'd do
that.
You can also put some nails under the coving temporarily to support
it's weight if that will help.

Mark.

wrote

Hi all,

I've managed to get about half way around my room but now I'm only
left with crooked walls - what do I do?? I have thought about nailing
the coving in place but one of my walls is like dust behind the
plaster.

Has anybody got any tips for me?

I've not tried it, but I've been told that dampening the coving makes it
more inclined to bend to the irregular shape of naff plater work.

Phil

wrote in message
...
Hi all,

I've managed to get about half way around my room but now I'm only
left with crooked walls - what do I do?? I have thought about nailing
the coving in place but one of my walls is like dust behind the
plaster.

Has anybody got any tips for me?

Cheers Mike


consider screwing it in place, should pull it up to the contour without
leaving the hammer marks if you used nails


mark

wrote:
Hi all,

I've managed to get about half way around my room but now I'm only
left with crooked walls - what do I do?? I have thought about nailing
the coving in place but one of my walls is like dust behind the
plaster.

Has anybody got any tips for me?

If they are only slightly crooked it looks better to keep the coving
straight rather than try to make it follow the contour of the wall. Then
just fill the gaps afterwards - tends not to draw the eyes attention to
the crooked wall.

You can make a couple of deadman props to support it while it dries.

(I tend to find the coving adhesive in a tube like that which
toolstation sell (Everbuild) has enough grab to fix it without needing
any extra support.

--
Cheers,

John.

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