REMOVING COVING - Project Nursery
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- We move back inside from the garden project completion, to make a start getting the nursery progressed further.
This week has been removing the plaster coving to make way for new to remove the messy joints left by whoever installed it.
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Thanks for the video. Getting it off is a bloody nightmare 😆
Tell me about it 🤣. Such a mess
So pleased to see someone else go through my pain!
Did a slightly different technique: hammering and ripping off the coving, then multitooling the adhesive blobs off... lots of skim/damage but like you, prefer to fill and sand after
Hardwork isnt it
Thank you! I have never done this and I need to do this with my husband later today
Just started this! Scored along top and bottom edges with a knife, chiselled top and bottom to lose, then used a hammer and it basically fell off as 2 pieces
I am currently doing it myself. Its dusty slow progress. I had a good run where two foot sections came off but after that its all hard bits and chiseling. I have lots of rooms to do because I am having the artex ceilings skimmed over.
Nice watching 👍 I'm on the way to lowered ceiling in all my house. For first to hide the lovely Artex 😁 For second spotlights For third + more insulation and For fourth more quieting between downsters to upsters rooms 👍
top tip 🤔 USE top of the range sharpest utility knife first…cut coving at Ceiling and wall…….. then you can get it down in meters rather than centimetres…..👍🏴🤪
Thanks for an honesty video on this subject, plus ongoing advice of removal of adhesive and problem solving. Would you re plaster the ceiling a Artech ceiling any video on this?
What about using a wallpaper steamer or water spray with a bit of washing up liquid to reduce the dust and help soften the coving adhesive.
That decides it then. Think i'll leave it up
I’m mid-way through redecorating my entire home, which has/had coving in every single room. My wife decided she wanted it all removed, then the walls plastered, then new coving put on.
I assumed it would be a simple job but it’s turned out to be one of the biggest ball ache diy jobs I’ve ever done.
As others have suggested, make sure you take time to prep, it pays dividends in the end.
Stanley blade the top and bottom of the coving, use a sharp tool (I went with a wooden handled scraper which had a metal head) and hammer into the top and bottom all the way around, and for the large part, it will come off in long pieces.
Good luck to anyone else undertaking this horrible job.
I used a floor scraper to the underside and top side, being careful not to mark the ceiling & walls. 3m section down within 60 seconds. 👍🙌
Good option, in other rooms it was difficult not to damage the existing plasterboard due to whatever adhesive was used or whether it was the amount.
I would have sacked the coving off and just used jointing tape and compound for the corner. More sanding, but I’m not a fan of coving. But that’s personal choice, the job was sound, good effort mate.
Im not a fan either, problem I have is I have coving everywhere and taking down is the hardest bit so would want to do it in every room lol
Fair point well brought out 😂🤣 try taking black mortar off, that's an emotional journey I know 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤮
Progress!
Getting there, Im hoping for a quickish turn around on this room 🤞🏼
I know it's rwo years later BUT, running some sort of dust extraction on any sander makes the job a hel of a lot easier and cleaner ......... but it makes a battery powered sander pretty pointless.
These days, i don't run a sander without a vac connected
Wet the remaining adhesive and it will just fall off - saves all the sanding and scraping
Hey! I’ve got so much remaining adhesive hanging on at the moment. How do you apply the water? If you could give me some more information that creates less dust that would be great!
I am doing this. The issue I have is that once I’ve taken off the coving there is not plaster… I am not putting coving back I want it a clean finish. would you suggest ready mix plaster to fill the gap?
If you arnt putting up new coving and dont want to take down old lining paper..You are left with a gap-is it best to fill with polyfila to the paper level? Or is that taking too many shortcuts?
Sds bent bolster bit
whoa making me seasick with the camera swinging...
I really do apologise.
Useful video but please KEEP THE CAMERA STILL instead of swinging it around all the time! I could only watch it in bits until I got seasick.
Thank you for the heads up, I have just watched it back as was a while ago it was filmed and unsure what bit you mean, but I may consider for future videos.
That’s got to be the most long winded, messy and crazy way to remove plaster coving 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
I’d say went quite well and left a great finish. Imagine going all guns blazing and ripping plasterboard off like it did in other rooms due to the adhesive.
There didn’t appear to be any reason to smash it into little bits, if you’d worked along the length of the bottom with a broad bladed scraper and mallet and then along the top it would have come away in large pieces if not one piece. Seeing as this is what you effectively did after smashing it up I fail to see why you felt the need to create such a mess 🤷🏼♂️
…because of experience of other rooms in our house, and adhesive is clearly not just applied to one side, by doing your method stated resulted in plasterboard being removed from the wall, which is not what I wanted when trying to retain the existing wall and simply replace the coving like for like. Creating much less mess