I've looked in the FAQs but can't find an answer so here goes:

What's the best (easiest) way of removing old polystyrene coving?

Cheers,

Mogweed.

Mogweed wrote:
I've looked in the FAQs but can't find an answer so here goes:

What's the best (easiest) way of removing old polystyrene coving?

Sprayer-full of acetone?

Flamethrower?

"Mogweed" wrote in message
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I've looked in the FAQs but can't find an answer so here goes:

What's the best (easiest) way of removing old polystyrene coving?


Don't know. But a match is the quickest :-)

"Mogweed" wrote in message
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I've looked in the FAQs but can't find an answer so here goes:

What's the best (easiest) way of removing old polystyrene coving?

Cheers,

Mogweed.


A large flat ended paint scraper honed to a chisel edge run carefully into
the glued joint. Will wander off into the coving, but will loosen and remove
most, then remaining mess can be scraped off with the same tool.

Cheers

Tim

Wouldn't it be nice if people didn't persist in trivialising a genuine
cry for help - must be very frustrating for the original poster to have
to sit through the attempts at humour while he waits for a usable reply

"Homer2911" wrote in message
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Wouldn't it be nice if people didn't persist in trivialising a genuine
cry for help - must be very frustrating for the original poster to have
to sit through the attempts at humour while he waits for a usable reply


good grief if the op can't work out how to get poly coving off then I reckon
he might need breathing reminders too.

mrcheerful

On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 23:55:18 +0000, mrcheerful
. wrote:


"Homer2911" wrote in message
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Wouldn't it be nice if people didn't persist in trivialising a genuine
cry for help - must be very frustrating for the original poster to have
to sit through the attempts at humour while he waits for a usable reply


good grief if the op can't work out how to get poly coving off then I reckon
he might need breathing reminders too.

mrcheerful

"mrcheerful" - my vote for "most unappropriate username, 2005"

Homer2911 wrote:

Wouldn't it be nice if people didn't persist in trivialising a genuine
cry for help - must be very frustrating for the original poster to have
to sit through the attempts at humour while he waits for a usable reply

Bread knife. Then sand.
Up yours as well.

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 22:17:13 -0000, "Mogweed" wrote:

What's the best (easiest) way of removing old polystyrene coving?

Haven't a clue - the coving is easy, it just depends how generously
they gooped it into place.

Arm yourself with a fistful of assorted sharp scrapers and go to it.
If you're coving on top of the ruins with plaster coving, then you
might not need to be particularly neat.
--
Smert' spamionam

"Andy Dingley" wrote in message
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On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 22:17:13 -0000, "Mogweed" wrote:

What's the best (easiest) way of removing old polystyrene coving?

Haven't a clue - the coving is easy, it just depends how generously
they gooped it into place.

Arm yourself with a fistful of assorted sharp scrapers and go to it.
If you're coving on top of the ruins with plaster coving, then you
might not need to be particularly neat.
--
Smert' spamionam


Thanks for the replies chaps, both the humourous ones as well as the genuine
ones )

Regarding mrcheerful's reply, I can assure you I'm good at the breathing
thing and even I could work out that a scraper or knife of some sort would
be needed. I only asked because, as we all know, polystyrene can crack and
break into a gazillion bits that get all over the place and I just wondered
if anyone had got a better way.

Once again, thanks to all.

Mogweed.

Mike wrote:

"Mogweed" wrote in message
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I've looked in the FAQs but can't find an answer so here goes:

What's the best (easiest) way of removing old polystyrene coving?


Don't know. But a match is the quickest :-)

Flamethrower's quicker.

On 4 Feb 2005 15:25:30 -0800, "Homer2911" strung
together this:

Wouldn't it be nice if people didn't persist in trivialising a genuine
cry for help - must be very frustrating for the original poster to have
to sit through the attempts at humour while he waits for a usable reply

FFS, hows about you stop whining like a 2 year old and put your dummy
back in. Ever heard of humour, sarcasm, no?
--

SJW
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