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Hi customer are taking away a chimney breast an it will leave an 8ft gap for a coving to be put back in the kind with just a 10mm lip top an bottom was going to use bonding an multi what would you guys in this situation not really my forte but want to get the rest of the house to do thanks
 
Is it not just gypsums stuff ? Knaufs is a few mil smaller also ....one length stick it up fill the ends and ur sorted , **** bonding it and making it up like would be a nightmare . Long as u get the right size of it etc .... U will be flying and a good job
 
It cud also be shitty polistyrene stuff with a few coats of paint on it also , u would be able to tell where the existing ends are like
 
I don't really understand the question,so the section in between the two lengths of coving you were thinking of forming the cove with bond and skim? If so I'm sure you would have trouble to get it 100%,do as above or if it's a real odd size that you can't find its either run in situ or re do the whole room with cheap stuff,the latter is only half a days work anyway so similar time to your original idea.:RpS_thumbup:
 
No mate it's not the gypsum stuff it's just an oversized run in coving when the chimney breast is removed it's going to leave at least a 6ft gap which needs putting back I've done tons of the normal crappy coving but this is an original
 
I don't really understand the question,so the section in between the two lengths of coving you were thinking of forming the cove with bond and skim? If so I'm sure you would have trouble to get it 100%,do as above or if it's a real odd size that you can't find its either run in situ or re do the whole room with cheap stuff,the latter is only half a days work anyway so similar time to your original idea.:RpS_thumbup:
yeah was going to get a timber former then put guides up top an bottom then run the bonding then try an core it out an skim
 
yeah was going to get a timber former then put guides up top an bottom then run the bonding then try an core it out an skim
Ahh I see,it probably would work the way you described,but would it be the most efficient way,is it an odd size?
 
as mike above. cut a length of the cove, take it to your local fibrous plasterer and get enough run up to cover the complete wall.
 
Is it not the cheap stuff that's there ie gypsum or Is it a basic fibrous cove madmonk?if you have done it before and are confident it will work then go for it.:RpS_thumbup:
 
Run a Baton on the wall and ceiling line butting up to existing , make sure the batons are the same thickness as the existing member, then shape it with bonding using a straight edge running off existing either side , then set it , take batons away , once painted ud never know
 
Run a Baton on the wall and ceiling line butting up to existing , make sure the batons are the same thickness as the existing member, then shape it with bonding using a straight edge running off existing either side , then set it , take batons away , once painted ud never know
Exactly that's what I've done in the past
 
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