Coving start
Again another one of those jobs I was dreading doing, it’s sort of if I can’t do this then how on Earth am I going to get everything else finished.
Coving t-darrrrrr
Now I’ve coved before and I’ve done it really well, but I’ve always done it with partner (well mostly) and I’ve always coved with basic thin plaster based coving. This was going to be a bit more elaborate. I’d already bought the coving in Decemeber but it was a new technology employing lightweight Duropolymer, anyway it wasn’t something I was too happy with working with and I was wary about working with it.
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Anyway check-out my page on coving technique and you’ll get an idea of what I was talking of.
Still anyway I started early, I started my washing (yes as I live on my own I have the domestics to do as well). I chopped some logs, I started the fire and once this was all done I started on the coving.
It started off as a bit of a disaster, I tried using the technique that I’d used for years coving plaster coving. Basically one large bit of coving with an inner-join, fix it to the wall and then pair it up to another long bit of coving again with an inner-join, simply push it into the corner already occupied by the existing coving and you’ll have a lovely corner. Unfortunately though this didn’t turn out too well, it turned out the joins were a little more sensitive than the plaster coving to placement and upon trying to join in the second bit of coving it all went a bit wrong.
An hour into the job and everything wasn’t going very well.
I found a solution in using smaller corner joints and gluing them into the corner simultaneously. Once I was happy with this technique I worked out from my first corner and around the room.
I really stuck at it, only very short breaks all day and although I wasn’t hanging around it took me hours. Once this was done then the joints had to be tidied up, again I worked around the room and another three hours later and a nine PM finish and it was done.