Hi, not dead (yet) - just been tied up

(I hope this works - just put this new "Gallery2" software on my web server)

Anyway:

http://photos.dionic.net/v/public/bu..._0038.jpg.html

shows I've just stripped the walls prior to chasing in for electrical runs
(lovely yellow paint!)

I was wondering what to do with the coving that you will be able to just see
at the top of the wall (I want to keep it):

a) I could either try to use a cranked SDS chasing chisel to chase up behind
the coving, with no hope of plastering in that last 3 inches - using
conduit so this doesn't seem to be a big problem...

b) Cut out a small section of coving, chase and replaster, then stick the
coving section back and try to make it good.

What would you do? I'm veering towards a)...

Option c) which is to pull off all the coving and replace seems wasteful and
extra work - it's decent plaster coving up there, not polystyrene.

Thoughts gratefully received...

*****




On an aside:

Here's a 30 quid mixer I got off a mate:

http://photos.dionic.net/v/public/bu..._0041.jpg.html
http://photos.dionic.net/v/public/bu..._0043.jpg.html

Due to the leg being rotton, it was a bit wobbly (it's heavy, so wobbly is
quite dangerous, as in fall over and kill a kid dangerous) - so Mr Heath
and Mr Robinson came up with the idea of setting the leg in a plant pot of
concrete to give some stability


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On another aside...

And for what it's worth, those floorheater.co.uk underfloor heating panels I
was wittering on about a few weeks back:

Well, here's a test sample fitted, to see how strong it all is:

http://photos.dionic.net/v/public/bu..._0044.jpg.html
http://photos.dionic.net/v/public/bu..._0045.jpg.html
http://photos.dionic.net/v/public/bu..._0047.jpg.html

Seems quite tough - I can't dislodge any tiles nor the polystryrene panel
from the floor. One comment I have to make is that the tiles are no longer
sitting on a solid substrate as they might be if glued down to screed on
concrete. I used a small rubber mallet to give them some abuse and managed
to make a hairline crack in one. Granted they are thin tiles, but the
reason it cracked is because the UFH panel is quite elastic.

Translating this into a real application, I could see that dropping
something heavy onto a floor lined with this type of UFH panel might crack
the tiles, whereas they'd probably survive is mounted conventionally...

But this is why we do tests on samples

Cheers

Tim