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Drew_Palmer

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Any advice greatly appreciated-
Picture this - Internal wall in lounge. Solid walls, not board. The corner of one of the walls is MORE than 90 degrees. The existing plaster on this corner is knackered. The walls are gonna be skimmed ,thats no problem but, how the hell do you get a nice edge on corners of more than 90 degrees when the original plaster's got loads of chunks missing etc. Normally when they want nice new corner edges on the walls we're skimming we use plaster board beads, but have no idea how to do this corner.
 
I'm trying to picture it.
How much over 90 is it?
How bad is the damage?
How deep is the existing platster?
Sorry it matters cos I can think of several methods to deal with it
Any pics?
Can you fill out with bonding and skim bead as normal
do you need to chisel it back?
Can you use a batten?
 
are we talking an external corner? if so use a stop bead (so's you can get just the right thickness on)...
if its internal i usually bang both sides on and wet corner em, just keep on it as it goes off you should be ok....
if the walls a bit wobbly put it on thick and use a feather edge to flatten the first coat, just place it bang down the corner and straighten the wall with it...next coat should go on peice of p'ss then...
 
its not uncommon to find a wooden bead lurking under such an external angle check and remove or it'll crack other than that in agreeance with previous advice you could do it wet but its quite tricky
 
Cheers fellas. I'll have a proper look when I'm back on the job next week. I'll have more acurate details then. I assume by using a stop bead, I would just stick only 1 onto the corner (same as normal 90 degree angle bead) and then skim up to it from either side?
 
You got it mate. Attach it a few mm proud so you got the bead on the unbeaded wall.
:)
 
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